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foraging investment

Scope: community ecology
Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

Local Knowledge Graph (21 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on foraging investment with 21 nodes and 55 connections. Top connected: Bees per person hour sampling, foraging ecology, neighborhood effects, floral resources, Trap-nest sampling (Megachilidae).

Definition

The energetic cost of provisioning brood cells, measured by number of foraging flights per completed cell and provision mass

Related Terms (2)

provisioning effortforaging flights

Publications (2)

article

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021Oecologiameasured
student_paper

Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

2016measured

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