Bigger is better: Implications of body size for flight ability under different light conditions and the evolution of alloethism in bumblebees

Functional Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1130-1136

  Kapustjanskij, A ^a   Streinzer, M ^a   Paulus, H F ^a   Spaethe, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alloethism; Complex eye; Foraging; Scaling; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEE; BODY SIZE; EVOLUTION; EYE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT INTENSITY; MORPHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIZE EFFECT; SURVIVAL; WORKER CASTE;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 36249016862     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01329.x     Document Type: Article

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