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Environmental filtering of body size and darker coloration in pollinator communities indicate thermal restrictions on bees, but not flies, at high elevations

BACKGROUND: Bees and flies are the two most dominant pollinator taxa in mountain environments of the Southwest USA. Communities of both taxa change dramatically along elevation gradients. We examined whether bee and fly traits would also change along elevation gradients and if so, do they change in...

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Autores principales: McCabe, Lindsie M., Cobb, Neil S., Butterfield, Bradley J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6796954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31632853
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7867