Urban parks as a functional area for the maintenance and diversity of bee populations
Walkiria Aparecida Benites,
Jean Carlos dos Santos Lima,
Cristiano Ramos Gonçalves
et al.
Abstract:Urbanization restricts native vegetation to small fragments surrounded by paved areas, grasses and degraded areas that strongly affects several biotic communities, including pollinator populations, which are not only greatly affected, but are also declining in several parts of the world. Bees are considered to be the main organisms to perform pollination, as they need to visit a great number of flowers daily to satisfy their individual food needs, their offspring and their colony, since they depend on floral r… Show more
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