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FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00044
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waggle dance; Apis mellifera; dance decoding; bee foraging; environmental monitoring
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资金
- Nineveh Charitable Trust
Here we explore how waggle dance decoding may be applied as a tool for ecology by evaluating the benefits and limitations of the methodology compared to other existing ways to evaluate the honey bees' use of the landscape. The honey bee foragers sample and report back on large areas (c. 100 km(2)). Because honey bees perform dances only for the most profitable resources, these data provide spatial information about the availability of good quality forage for any given time. We argue that dance decoding may inform on a range of ecological, conservation, and land management issues. In this way, one species and methodology gives us a novel measure of a landscape's profitability, or health, that may be widely relevant, not just for honey bees, but for other flower-visiting insects as well.
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