Radar Tracking and Motion-Sensitive Cameras on Flowers Reveal the Development of Pollinator Multi-Destination Routes over Large Spatial Scales

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lihoreau, Mathieu ^a,c   Raine, Nigel E ^a,d   Reynolds, Andrew M ^b   Stelzer, Ralph J ^a   Lim, Ka S ^b   Smith, Alan D ^b   Osborne, Juliet L ^b,e   Chittka, Lars ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; FLYING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; BEES; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; FLOWERS; MOTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLLINATION; RADAR; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS;

EID: 84866724846     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001392     Document Type: Article

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