Effects of selective episodes in the field on life history traits in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Oikos

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 563-568

  Baer, Boris ^a,b   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a Experimental Ecology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; SOCIAL INSECT;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0013446711     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12395.x     Document Type: Article

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