Do pollen diets vary among adjacent bumble bee colonies?

Ecological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 639-646

  Munidasa, Dulee Tamirei ^a   Toquenaga, Yukihiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bumble bee; Foraging range; Intra specific; Small scale landscape; Work force

Indexed keywords

BEE; COLONY STRUCTURE; DIET; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; POLLEN; RESOURCE USE;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS ARDENS;

EID: 77952427532     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-010-0697-z     Document Type: Article

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