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- Title
Complementary habitat use by wild bees in agro-natural landscapes.
- Authors
Mandelik, Yael; Winfree, Rachael; Neeson, Thomas; Kremen, Claire
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the resource use and community-level patterns of habitat of bees in agro-natural landscapes in the eastern U.S. The study evaluated natural habitat, old fields, and agricultural fields, which feature varied seasonal pattern of floral diversity, amount, and composition. Result shown that most of the wild bees use fallow areas within crops in early and mid-season and uagse old-field in later season. Moreover, natural habitat has limited number of bees.
- Subjects
BEE behavior; HABITAT selection; PATTERN formation (Biology); LANDSCAPES; BIODIVERSITY
- Publication
Ecological Applications, 2012, Vol 22, Issue 5, p1535
- ISSN
1051-0761
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/11-1299.1