Cephalaria transsylvanica-based flower strips as potential food source for bees during dry periods in European Mediterranean basin countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Benelli, Giovanni ^a   Benvenuti, Stefano ^a   Desneux, Nicolas ^b   Canale, Angelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BUMBLEBEE; CEPHALARIA TRANSSYLVANICA; FORAGING; GERMINATION; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SUMMER; ANIMAL; BEE; CAPRIFOLIACEAE; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEES; DIPSACACEAE; FLOWERS; INSECTS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEEDS;

EID: 84899956707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093153     Document Type: Article

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