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ARCHIVES OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 64, Issue 2, Pages 777-786Publisher
INST BIOLOSKA ISTRAZIVANJA SINISA STANKOVIC
DOI: 10.2298/ABS1202777S
Keywords
Pollinators; Hymenoptera; Diptera; agro-ecosystems; grassland fragments
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- Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Serbia [173002]
- project 'Status and Trends of European Pollinators' [FP7-ENV-2009-1-244090]
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The aim of this study was to assess species diversity and population abundance of the two main orders of pollinating insects, Hymenoptera and Diptera. The survey was conducted in 16 grassland fragments within agro-ecosystems in Vojvodina, as well as in surrounding fields with mass-flowering crops. Pollinators were identified and the Shannon-Wiener Diversity Index was used to measure their diversity. Five families, 7 subfamilies, 26 genera and 63 species of insects were recorded. All four big pollinator groups investigated were recorded; hoverflies were the most abundant with 32% of the total number of individuals, followed by wild bees -29%, honeybees -23% and bumblebees with 16%.
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