The proportion of impervious surfaces at the landscape scale structures wild bee assemblages in a densely populated region

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 6599-6615

  Geslin, Benoît ^a   Le Féon, Violette ^b   Folschweiller, Morgane ^a   Flacher, Floriane ^a,c   Carmignac, David ^a   Motard, Eric ^a,d   Perret, Samuel ^e   Dajoz, Isabelle ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Bees; community ecology; gradient; landscape scale; urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983684994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2374     Document Type: Article

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