The effect of climatic variation on abundance and diversity of bumblebees: A ten years survey in a mountain hotspot

Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 261-273

  Iserbyt, Stéphanie ^a   Rasmont, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bombus; Global Warming; Pyrenees; Regression; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873812314     PISSN: 00379271     EISSN: 21686351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2012.10697775     Document Type: Article

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