Native plants are the bee’s knees: local and landscape predictors of bee richness and abundance in backyard gardens

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 641-659

  Pardee, Gabriella L ^a,b   Philpott, Stacy M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Native bees; Pollination; Urban gardens; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892465625     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-014-0349-0     Document Type: Article

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