Habitat structure and animal movement: The behaviour of bumble bees in uniform and random spatial resource distributions

Oecologia

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 430-434

  Cartar, Ralph V ^a,b   Real, Leslie A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directionality; Foraging behaviour; Habitat structure; Pollination ecology; Resource dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

EID: 0030856823     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050329     Document Type: Article

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