Floral resource partitioning between native Melipona bees and the introduced Africanized honey bee in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest

Apidologie

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 339-355

  Wilms, W ^a,b   Wiechers, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bee; Brazilian Atlantic rain forest; Pollen analysis; Resource exploitation; Stingless bees; Trophic niche overlap

Indexed keywords

HONEY; POLLEN;

AFRICANIZED HONEYBEE; FOOD COMPETITION; HONEYBEE; NICHE OVERLAP; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; STINGLESS BEE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEE; BRAZIL; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; PLANT;

BRAZIL;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARECACEAE; ASTERACEAE; CUNONIACEAE; EUPHORBIACEAE; HYMENOPTERA; MELASTOMATACEAE; MELIPONA BICOLOR; MELIPONA QUADRIFASCIATA; MYTRACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

EID: 0031426684     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19970602     Document Type: Article

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