Community ecology in bees: relative importance of rare and common species in some Holarctic and Neotropical sites

Community ecology in bees: relative importance of rare and common species in some Holarctic and Neotropical sites¹

Sebastião Laroca

Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-970 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

ABSTRACT

Data on relative importance of rare and common bee species in some holarctic and neotropical limited sites are presented. The density distribution patterns in samples from all analyzed assemblages is characterized by a relatively large number of species represented by few individuals and few species with large number of individuals, as in most animal communities.

Key words: Ecology, community, neotropical-bees, holarctic-bees

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I dedicate this paper to Padre Jesus Santiago Moure for his eighty years of existence, most of which expent in the study of neotropical bees. I wish to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Charles D. Michener for his patient advise and encouragement. My gratitude also to Dr. Shoichi F. Sakagami, whose help was decisive in the inicial stage of my studies on bee ecology. This work was supported by CNPq and CAPES (Brasília, Brazil).

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Contribuição número 766 do Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  28 July 2009
• Date of issue
  1992

History

• Accepted
  07 June 1993
• Received
  02 Nov 1992