Why do some nectar foragers perch and others hover while probing flowers?

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 543-555

  Dreisig, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Competition; Energetics; Evolutionarily stable strategy; Flight mode; Nectar foraging

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; FEEDING STRATEGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; HOVERING; NECTAR FEEDING; PERCHING;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS PASQUORUM; HEMARIS; HEMARIS FUCIFORMIS; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYCHNIS VISCARIA; SILENE; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 0030771710     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-997-1510-5     Document Type: Article

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