Structure of bee-flower system in the coastal sand dune of Abaeté, northeastern Brazil
For twelve months (from January to December of 1996) we investigated bee-flower interactions in a sea coastal ecosystem in Bahia, Brazil. Samples were taken three times each month. 3983 individuals belonging to 49 bee species, grouped in 13 morph-functional categories, visited 66 plant species belonging to 39 botanic families. It was observed 310 interactions between bees and plants at species level. The use of floral resources by bees was not homogeneous; most of the plant species received a low number of visitors. No restricted plant-bee species relationship in resource use concerning the subset of analyzed interactions was detected. In Abaeté the generalist relationships predominated.
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Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
2006
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262006000100008 |
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