High diversity stabilizes the thermal resilience of pollinator communities in intensively managed grasslands

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kühsel, Sara ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; POLLINATOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BEE; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GRASSLAND; HYMENOPTERA; LAND USE; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SUMMER; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; TEMPERATURE;

APOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INSECTS; POLLINATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84938931123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8989     Document Type: Article

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