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Fearful Foragers: Honey Bees Tune Colony and Individual Foraging to Multi-Predator Presence and Food Quality

Fear can have strong ecosystem effects by giving predators a role disproportionate to their actual kill rates. In bees, fear is shown through foragers avoiding dangerous food sites, thereby reducing the fitness of pollinated plants. However, it remains unclear how fear affects pollinators in a compl...

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Autores principales: Tan, Ken, Hu, Zongwen, Chen, Weiwen, Wang, Zhengwei, Wang, Yuchong, Nieh, James C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3786909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24098734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075841