'Bee hotels' as tools for native pollinator conservation: A premature verdict?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  MacIvor, J Scott ^a   Packer, Laurence ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEE; BEE HOTEL; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OSMIA CAERULESCENS; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; WASP; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BEES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEMALE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WASPS;

EID: 84925652359     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122126     Document Type: Article

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