Resource tracking by bumble bees: Responses to plant-level differences in quality

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2764-2771

  Cartar, Ralph V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus; Foraging behavior of bumble bees; Nectar secretion; Pollination ecology; Resource tracking; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BEE; FLOWER VISITING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NECTAR; PATCHINESS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS; BOMBUS (GENUS); CHAMERION ANGUSTIFOLIUM; EPILOBIUM; EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; HEDYSARUM; HEDYSARUM ALPINUM; HEDYSARUM SULPHURESCENS; HYMENOPTERA; MONTICOLA; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS MONTICOLA; PENSTEMON; PENSTEMON CONFERTUS;

EID: 7544250731     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0484     Document Type: Article

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