Updating the list of flower-visiting bees, hoverflies and wasps in the central atolls of maldives, with notes on land-use effects

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    Islands usually select an immigrant pollinator fauna adapted to long dispersal, as, for instance, bee species are of moderate size and so they can undertake longer flights or bees are associated with a wood-nesting strategy allowing passive_transport over water (Poulsen and Rasmussen 2020). The animals and plants of Maldives are peculiar because these island are located in a key biogeographical position, being relatively near the Indian subcontinent, but also relatively close to islands, such as Mauritius and Seychelles, notorious stepping stones of species from Africa (Anderson 2009, Warren et_al 2010). In fact, a . . .

     

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