Six-year population fluctuation of the giant honey bee Apis dorsata (hymenoptera: apidae) in a tropical lowland dipterocarp forest in Sarawak

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 545-549

  Itioka, Takao ^a   Inoue, Tamiji ^b   Kaliang, Het ^c,d   Kato, Makoto ^b   Nagamitsu, Teruyoshi ^b   Momose, Kuniyasu ^b   Sakai, Shoko ^b   Yumoto, Takakazu ^b   Mohamad, Sarkawi Umah ^c,d   Hamid, Abang Abdul ^c,d   Yamane, Seiki ^e  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^d Pusat Penyelidikan Hutan   (Malaysia)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apis koschevnikovi; Borneo; General flowering; Migration; Numerical response; Southeast Asian tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000795410     PISSN: 00138746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0545:SYPFOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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