Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps

Functional Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 26-37

  Senapathi, Deepa ^a   Goddard, Mark A ^b   Kunin, William E ^c   Baldock, Katherine C R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agri environment; habitat characteristics; policy; pollinator conservation; spatial scales; species abundance; species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HETEROGENEITY; INSECT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POLLINATOR; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

APOIDEA;

EID: 85007162498     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12809     Document Type: Review

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