Honeybees, communicative order, and the collapse of ecosystems

Biosemiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-204

  Harries Jones, Peter ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communication; Don McNeil; Go betweens in ecosystems; Gregory Bateson; Honeybee plant recursions; Sterile nectar; Topology of timing cycles

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 67650671126     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-009-9044-6     Document Type: Article

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