Travel optimization by foraging bumblebees through readjustments of traplines after discovery of new feeding locations

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 744-757

  Lihoreau, Mathieu ^a   Chittka, Lars ^a   Raine, Nigel E ^a,b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bombus terrestris; Pollination ecology; Spatial cognition; Trapline foraging; Traveling salesman problem

Indexed keywords

BEE; FEEDING GROUND; FLOWER VISITING; MEMORY; OPTIMIZATION; SPATIAL COGNITION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; FLYING; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; MEMORY; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 78649687913     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657042     Document Type: Article

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