The winners and losers of land use intensification: Pollinator community disassembly is non-random and alters functional diversity

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 908-917

  Rader, Romina ^a,b,c   Bartomeus, Ignasi ^d   Tylianakis, Jason M ^e,f   Laliberté, Etienne ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Agro ecosystem; Bees; Biodiversity; Crop; Ecosystem function; Functional richness; Functional traits; Land use change; Pollination

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84903958197     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12221     Document Type: Article

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