Linking life history traits to pollinator loss in fragmented calcareous grasslands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-120

  Jauker, Birgit ^a,b   Krauss, Jochen ^c   Jauker, Frank ^b   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bees; Biodiversity; Body size; Community ecology; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape diversity; Sociality; Species area relationships; Trophic level

Indexed keywords

BEE; BODY SIZE; CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; EUSOCIALITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT QUALITY; HOLISTIC APPROACH; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEST; POLLINATOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP; TROPHIC LEVEL;

GERMANY;

APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE;

EID: 84872660446     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9820-6     Document Type: Article

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