Use of human-made nesting structures by wild bees in an urban environment

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 239-253

  Fortel, Laura ^a   Henry, Mickaël ^a,b   Guilbaud, Laurent ^a,b   Mouret, Hugues ^c   Vaissière, Bernard E ^a,b  

^a Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^b UMT Protection des Abeilles dans l'Environnement   (France)

^c Arthropologia   (France)

Author keywords

Human made nesting structures; Nest site fidelity; Nest site selection; Nesting resource availability; Phylopatry; Substrate quality; Urban area; Wild bees

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; BEE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SITE FIDELITY; SITE SELECTION; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ACER; APOIDEA; CATALPA; OSMIA; OSMIA CORNUTA;

EID: 84961217263     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: 15729753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-016-9857-y     Document Type: Article

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