Floral reward production is timed by an insect pollinator

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1620, 2007, Pages 1831-1837

  Boisvert, Michael J ^a   Veal, Anthea J ^a   Sherry, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus impatiens; Bumble bee; Foraging; Interval timing; Pollinator

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

BEE; FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; REPLACEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUCROSE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOWER; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TIME;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS IMPATIENS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548508401     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0445     Document Type: Article

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