High-altitude multi-taskers: bumble bee food plant use broadens along an altitudinal productivity gradient

Oecologia

Volumn 176, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1033-1045

  Miller Struttmann, Nicole E ^a   Galen, Candace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine bumble bees; Bombus; Generalization; Niche partitioning; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BEE; DISTURBANCE; GLOBAL WARMING; HOST PLANT; NICHE OVERLAP; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); MELANDERIA;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

EID: 84920108469     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3066-8     Document Type: Article

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