The ontogeny of bumblebee flight trajectories: From Naïve explorers to experienced foragers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Osborne, Juliet L ^a,b   Smith, Alan ^b   Clark, Suzanne J ^b   Reynolds, Don R ^c   Barron, Mandy C ^d   Lim, Ka S ^b   Reynolds, Andy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^d LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT; FLYING; FORAGER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LANDSCAPE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORGANISM COLONY; POLLEN; PREDICTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893193627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078681     Document Type: Article

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