Aggressive foraging of social bees as a mechanism of floral resource partitioning in an asian tropical rainforest

Oecologia

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 432-439

  Nagamitsu, T ^a   Inoue, T ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floral resource; Interference competition; Resource partitioning; Sarawak; Stingless bees

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSIVE FORAGING; FLORAL RESOURCE; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; STINGLESS BEE; TRADE-OFF;

MALAYSIA, SARAWAK;

APIDAE; BURSERACEAE; DIPTEROCARPACEAE; HYMENOPTERA; SANTIRIA LAEVIGATA; TRIGONA APICALIS; TRIGONA CANIFRONS; TRIGONA FIMBRIATA; TRIGONA MELINA;

EID: 0030618680     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050178     Document Type: Article

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