Urbanization affects plant flowering phenology and pollinator community: effects of water availability and land cover

Ecological Processes

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Neil, Kaesha ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^a,b   Bang, Christofer ^a   Faeth, Stanley ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Flowering phenology; Land cover; Pollinators; Urban ecology; Urban heat island effects

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

FLOWERING PHENOLOGY; LAND COVER; POLLINATORS; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECTS;

URBAN GROWTH;

FLOWERING; HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATOR; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

APOIDEA; ARTHROPODA; ENCELIA; ENCELIA FARINOSA;

EID: 84942306330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13717-014-0017-6     Document Type: Article

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