Floral reward, advertisement and attractiveness to honey bees in dioecious Salix caprea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Dötterl, Stefan ^a,c   Glück, Ulrike ^a   Jürgens, Andreas ^b   Woodring, Joseph ^a   Aas, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIOECY; FLORAL REWARD; FLOWERING; HONEYBEE; INFLORESCENCE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; REWARD; SALIX CAPREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; WILLOW; ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; BEE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FEMALE; FLOWER; MALE; ODOR; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SMELLING; VISION;

NECTAR;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLOR; CUES; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PLANT NECTAR; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REWARD; SALIX; SMELL; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899825792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093421     Document Type: Article

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