Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service

Ecology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 626-635

  Winfree, Rachael ^a   Fox, Jeremy W ^b   Williams, Neal M ^c   Reilly, James R ^a   Cariveau, Daniel P ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity ecosystem function; Biodiversity ecosystem functioning; Dominance; Pollination; Pollinator; Species abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES RICHNESS;

APOIDEA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84931560785     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12424     Document Type: Article

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