Experience changes pollinator responses to floral display size: From size-based to reward-based foraging

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 854-863

  Makino, T T ^a   Sakai, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apparent size; Floral display size; Location learning ability; Pollination; Reward size

Indexed keywords

BEE; FLORISTICS; FLOWER VISITING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

EID: 34548453235     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01293.x     Document Type: Article

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