Profiling crop pollinators: Life history traits predict habitat use and crop visitation by Mediterranean wild bees

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 742-752

  Pisanty, Gideon ^a   Mandelik, Yael ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crop pollination; Ecosystem service; Ecotone; Edge effect; Functional trait; Habitat gradient; Halictini; Land use change; Lasioglossum; Life history trait; Mediterranean agroecosystem; Wild bees

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; BODY SIZE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLOWER VISITING; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; POLLINATOR; SAMPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILD POPULATION;

ISRAEL;

APOIDEA; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; HALICTINI; HELIANTHUS; PRUNUS DULCIS;

ANIMAL; BEE; CITRULLUS; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRUNUS; SUNFLOWER;

ANIMALS; BEES; CITRULLUS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; HELIANTHUS; ISRAEL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRUNUS;

EID: 85047698750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0910.1     Document Type: Review

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