Modeling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 140-145

  Koh, Insu ^a   Lonsdorf, Eric V ^a,b   Williams, Neal M ^c   Brittain, Claire ^c   Isaacs, Rufus ^d   Gibbs, Jason ^d   Ricketts, Taylor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop pollination; Ecosystem services; Habitat suitability; Land use change; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

APPLE; ARTICLE; BEE; BLUEBERRY; CROP; CROP PRODUCTION; FORAGE QUALITY; HABITAT; LAND USE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PEACH; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUASH; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; UNITED STATES; WATERMELON; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FARMERS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953260623     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517685113     Document Type: Article

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