Trait-specific responses of wild bee communities to landscape composition, configuration and local factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Hopfenmüller, Sebastian ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a   Holzschuh, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BEE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCKOO BEE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GERMANY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILD SPECIES; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOWER; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; GERMANY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84940217797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104439     Document Type: Article

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