Effects of Experience on Short- and Long-term Foraging Performance in Bumblebees

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-55

  Durisko, Zachary ^a   Shipp, Les ^b   Dukas, Reuven ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HONEYBEE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 78650375785     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01842.x     Document Type: Article

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