High population variability and source-sink dynamics in a solitary bee species

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1400-1408

  Franzen, Markus ^a,b   Nilsson, Sven G ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Andrena humilis; Apiformes; Bee conservation; Bet hedging strategy; Colonization; Diapause; Extinction; Metapopulation; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BEE; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; DIAPAUSE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LANDSCAPE; NATURAL ENEMY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RARE SPECIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CLIMATE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEES; CLIMATE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

SWEDEN;

APOIDEA;

EID: 84879599612     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2260.1     Document Type: Article

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