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Floral Temperature and Optimal Foraging: Is Heat a Feasible Floral Reward for Pollinators?

As well as nutritional rewards, some plants also reward ectothermic pollinators with warmth. Bumble bees have some control over their temperature, but have been shown to forage at warmer flowers when given a choice, suggesting that there is some advantage to them of foraging at warm flowers (such as...

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Autores principales: Rands, Sean A., Whitney, Heather M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18431488
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002007