Ambient temperature influences Australian native stingless bee (Trigona carbonaria) preference for warm nectar

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Norgate, Melanie ^a   Boyd Gerny, Skye ^a   Simonov, Vera ^a   Rosa, Marcello G P ^a   Heard, Tim A ^b   Dyer, Adrian G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FLOWER; FOOD PREFERENCE; IMAGING; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; STIMULUS; STINGLESS BEE; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; BEE; LABORATORY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; TEMPERATURE;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MELIPONINAE; TRIGONA CARBONARIA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; LABORATORIES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NECTAR; POLLINATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77957809537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012000     Document Type: Article

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