Competition between managed honeybees and wild bumblebees depends on landscape context

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 609-616

  Herbertsson, Lina ^a   Lindström, Sandra A M ^a,b,c   Rundlöf, Maj ^a,d   Bommarco, Riccardo ^b   Smith, Henrik G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Rural Economy and Agricultural Societies Hushallningssallskapet Kristianstad   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Bombus; Flower resources; Interspecific competition; Landscape complexity; Pollinators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992223415     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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