Distance and habitat drive fine scale stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) community turnover across naturally heterogeneous forests in the Western Amazon

Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 407-414

  Misiewicz, Tracy M ^a,b   Kraichak, E ^b,c   Rasmussen, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^c KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Beta diversity; Distance based redundancy analysis; Meliponini; Peru; White sand forest

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 84921473655     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v61i4.407-414     Document Type: Article

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