Graphing the survivorship of bees

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 292-296

  Hutchinson, T P ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bee survival; Hazard rate plotting; Increasing hazard rate; Survivorship; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL METHOD; SURVIVORSHIP;

APOIDEA;

EID: 0033771850     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001718     Document Type: Article

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