Maize pollen foraging by honey bees in relation to crop area and landscape context

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 677-684

  Danner, Nadja ^a   Härtel, Stephan ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Bee decline; Exposure risk; Foraging distances; Resource use; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84930048047     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.08.010     Document Type: Article

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