Seeking the flowers for the bees: Integrating biotic interactions into niche models to assess the distribution of the exotic bee species Lithurgus huberi in South America

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 273, Issue , 2014, Pages 200-209

  Silva, Daniel P ^a,b   Gonzalez, Victor H ^c,d   Melo, Gabriel A R ^e   Lucia, Mariano ^f   Alvarez, Leopoldo J ^f   De Marco, Paulo ^a  

^a Theory Metapopulation and Landscape Lab Departamento de Ecologia Instituto de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Federal de Goiás Campus II   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^c SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Exotic species; Lithurgini; Megachilidae; Pollination; Species distribution models; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; PLANTS (BOTANY);

EXOTIC SPECIES; LITHURGINI; MEGACHILIDAE; POLLINATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; SPECIES INTERACTIONS;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHM; BEE; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOWER VISITING; HOST PLANT; INVASIVE SPECIES; NEW RECORD; NICHE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

SOUTH AMERICA;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; CONVOLVULACEAE; LITHURGINI; LITHURGUS; MEGACHILIDAE; MEGACHILINAE;

EID: 84889685303     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.11.016     Document Type: Article

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