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- Title
COMPLEX RESPONSES WITHIN A DESERT BEE GUILD (HYMENOPTERA: APIFORMES) TO URBAN HABITAT FRAGMENTATION.
- Authors
Cane, James H.; Minckley, Robert L.; Kervin, Linda J.; Roulston, Tai H.; Williams, Neal M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the study on the complex responses within a desert bee guild to urban habitat fragmentation. The authors compared species incidence and abundance patterns for the bee guild visiting at 59 habitat fragments of known size and age and in adjacent desert. The comparison was done in order to evaluate the response of bee fauna to fragmentation. The 62 bee species used in the study responded to fragmentation and not in direct relation to their abundance or incidence in undisturbed desert. Overall, bee response to urban habitat fragmentation was best practiced by ecological traits associated with nesting and dietary breadth.
- Subjects
FRAGMENTED landscapes; LANDSCAPE ecology; ECOLOGICAL heterogeneity; ECOLOGY; FOREST restoration; HABITATS; ANTHROPOGENIC effects on nature; DESERTS; BEES; INSECT societies
- Publication
Ecological Applications, 2006, Vol 16, Issue 2, p632
- ISSN
1051-0761
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0632:CRWADB]2.0.CO;2