Pollen foraging and resource partitioning of stingless bees in relation to flowering dynamics in a Southeast Asian tropical rainforest

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 273-279

  Eltz, T ^a   Bruhl C A ^a   Van der Kaars, S ^b   Chey, V K ^c   Linsenmair, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Generalist forager; Pollen foraging; Resource availability; Resource partitioning; Stratum preference

Indexed keywords

BEE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FLOWERING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NICHE PARTITIONING; POLLEN;

MALAYSIA; SABAH;

APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TRIGONA COLLINA; TRIGONA MELANOCEPHALA; TRIGONA MELINA;

EID: 0034823665     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00001777     Document Type: Article

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