Resource assurance predicts specialist and generalist bee activity in drought

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1759, 2013, Pages

  Minckley, Robert L ^a   Roulston, T'ai H ^b   Williams, Neal M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apiformes; Climate change; Diapause; Host specialization; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BEE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIAPAUSE; DROUGHT; GENERALIST; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; POLLINATION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84878225468     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2703     Document Type: Article

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