Mass-flowering crops enhance wild bee abundance

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 477-484

  Holzschuh, Andrea ^a,c   Dormann, Carsten F ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^c   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Canola; Oilseed rape; Pollen; Spillover; Trap nests

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEE; CANOLA; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; FLOWERING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MOVEMENT; MUTUALISM; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; WILD POPULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; GERMANY; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPESEED;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BRASSICA NAPUS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; GERMANY; LARVA; POACEAE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

APOIDEA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; OSMIA;

EID: 84878107675     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2515-5     Document Type: Article

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