Red mason bees cannot compete with honey bees for floral resources in a cage experiment

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 5049-5056

  Hudewenz, Anika ^a   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^a,b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cage experiment; Competitive interactions; Niche breadth; Reproduction; Resource overlap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945897620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1762     Document Type: Article

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