Estimating colony locations of bumble bees with moving average model

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-48

  Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a   Toquenaga, Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombus ardens; Bombus diversus; Estimating colony locations; Habitat selection; Moving average model

Indexed keywords

BEE; COLONY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT SELECTION;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS ARDENS; BOMBUS DIVERSUS; BOMBUS PENNSYLVANICUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0038715578     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00461.x     Document Type: Article

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