Honeybee foraging in differentially structured landscapes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1515, 2003, Pages 569-575

  Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a   Kuhn, Arno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bee dance; Competition; Foraging strategy; Gene flow; Landscape structure; Social insects

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HONEYBEE; INFORMATION; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0037460886     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2292     Document Type: Article

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