Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in the Netherlands

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 17552-17557

  Scheper, Jeroen ^a   Reemer, Menno ^b   Van Kats, Ruud ^a   Ozinga, Wim A ^a,c   Van Der Linden, Giel T J ^a   Schaminée, Joop H J ^a,c   Siepel, Henk ^a,c   Kleijn, David ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bee decline; Crop pollination; Floral resources; Land use change; Pollen preference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INFORMATION CENTER; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLEN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WILD SPECIES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

APOIDEA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MUSEUMS; NETHERLANDS; PLANTS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

EID: 84916623156     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412973111     Document Type: Article

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