Preference in flower visits and partitioning in pollen diets of stingless bees in an Asian tropical rain forest

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-202

  Nagamitsu, Teruyoshi ^a   Momose, Kuniyasu ^b   Inoue, Tamiji ^b   Roubik, David W ^c  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Flower visitation; Foraging; Pollen preference; Resource partitioning; Sarawak; Trigona

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001766247     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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