Honey bee foraging in spring oilseed rape crops under high ambient temperature conditions

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Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-70

  Blazyte Cereskiene, Laima ^a   Vaitkevičiene, Gražina ^a   Venskutonyte, Sandra ^b   Buda, Vincas ^a,b  

^a Nature Research Centre   (Lithuania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Apis mellifera; Brassica napus; Honey bee; Oilseed rape; Pollination

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; BRASSICA NAPUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 78049361373     PISSN: 13923196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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