Carry-over effects of bumblebee associative learning in changing plant communities leads to increased costs of foraging

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-26

  Internicola, Antonina I ^a   Page, Paul A ^b   Bernasconi, Giorgina ^c   Gigord, Luc D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial inflorescences; Bombus terrestris; Costs of foraging; Cue reward association; Flower colour; Phenology; Speed accuracy trade off

Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLOWER VISITING; LEARNING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 61749104385     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-008-9051-6     Document Type: Article

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