Livestock grazing is associated with seasonal reduction in pollinator biodiversity and functional dispersion but cheatgrass invasion is not: Variation in bee assemblages in a multi-use shortgrass prairie

Khum Bahadur Thapa-Magar; Thomas Seth Davis; Boris Kondratieff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0237484

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Livestock grazing is associated with seasonal reduction in pollinator biodiversity and functional dispersion but cheatgrass invasion is not: Variation in bee assemblages in a multi-use shortgrass prairie

Khum Bahadur Thapa-Magar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Thomas Seth Davis ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: seth.davis@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9901-2516

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Boris Kondratieff

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agricultural Biology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America
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Livestock grazing is associated with seasonal reduction in pollinator biodiversity and functional dispersion but cheatgrass invasion is not: Variation in bee assemblages in a multi-use shortgrass prairie

Khum Bahadur Thapa-Magar,
Thomas Seth Davis,
Boris Kondratieff

Published: December 17, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237484

About the Authors

Khum Bahadur Thapa-Magar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Thomas Seth Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: seth.davis@colostate.edu

Affiliation Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9901-2516

Boris Kondratieff

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Agricultural Biology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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