Honey pollen: Using melissopalynology to understand foraging preferences of bees in tropical south India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Ponnuchamy, Raja ^a,b   Bonhomme, Vincent ^a,d,e   Prasad, Srinivasan ^a   Das, Lipi ^c   Patel, Prakash ^c   Gaucherel, Cédric ^a   Pragasam, Arunachalam ^b   Anupama, Krishnamurthy ^a  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b Kanchi Mamunivar Centre for Post Graduate Studies   (India)

^c Sri Aurobindo Intl Ctr of Educ   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; EPIPHYTE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERB; INDIA; LANDSCAPE; MELISSOPALYNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NONHUMAN; PALYNOLOGY; PLANTATION; POLLEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHRUB; TREE; ANALYSIS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HONEY; POLLINATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HONEY; INDIA; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

EID: 84903977913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101618     Document Type: Article

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