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What Currency Do Bumble Bees Maximize?

In modelling bumble bee foraging, net rate of energetic intake has been suggested as the appropriate currency. The foraging behaviour of honey bees is better predicted by using efficiency, the ratio of energetic gain to expenditure, as the currency. We re-analyse several studies of bumble bee foragi...

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Autores principales: Charlton, Nicholas L., Houston, Alasdair I.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2922330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20808437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012186