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Life-Long Radar Tracking of Bumblebees

Insect pollinators such as bumblebees play a vital role in many ecosystems, so it is important to understand their foraging movements on a landscape scale. We used harmonic radar to record the natural foraging behaviour of Bombus terrestris audax workers over their entire foraging career. Every flig...

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Autores principales: Woodgate, Joseph L., Makinson, James C., Lim, Ka S., Reynolds, Andrew M., Chittka, Lars
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27490662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160333