Urban gardens promote bee foraging over natural habitats and plantations

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1304-1316

  Kaluza, Benjamin F ^a,b,c   Wallace, Helen ^b   Heard, Tim A ^d   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^e   Leonhardt, Sara D ^c  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic activities; Climate factors; Meliponines; Resource availability; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959422731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1941     Document Type: Article

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