Gauging the Effect of Honey Bee Pollen Collection on Native Bee Communities

Conservation Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 205-210

  Cane, James H ^a   Tepedino, Vincent J ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis; competition; conservation reserve program; pollinators; public land; resource depletion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976878195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12263     Document Type: Letter

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