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SUBMITTER: Geslin B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5058531 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Geslin Benoît B Le Féon Violette V Folschweiller Morgane M Flacher Floriane F Carmignac David D Motard Eric E Perret Samuel S Dajoz Isabelle I
Ecology and evolution 20160825 18
Given the predicted expansion of cities throughout the world, understanding the effect of urbanization on bee fauna is a major issue for the conservation of bees. The aim of this study was to understand how urbanization affects wild bee assemblages along a gradient of impervious surfaces and to determine the influence of landscape composition and floral resource availability on these assemblages. We chose 12 sites with a proportion of impervious surfaces (soil covered by parking, roads, and buil ...[more]