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A helping habitat for bumblebees

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A study showing the effects of land-use quality on the productivity of bumblebee colonies highlights the importance of resource availability across space and time in promoting survival over generations. See Letter p.547

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Figure 1: A role for habitat in bumblebee-population trajectories.

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  1. Jeffrey D. Lozier is in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA.,

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Lozier, J. A helping habitat for bumblebees. Nature 543, 498–499 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21897

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