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Influence of Abiotic Factors and Floral Resource Availability on Daily Foraging Activity of Bees

dc.contributor.authorPolatto, Leandro P. [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorChaud-Netto, Jose [UNESP]
dc.contributor.authorAlves-Junior, Valter V.
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributor.institutionUFGD
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-18T15:53:03Z
dc.date.available2015-03-18T15:53:03Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-01
dc.description.abstractIn this study, the daily and seasonal influences of abiotic factors and the amount of floral resources on the foraging frequency of bees were determined. The experiments were performed, during 12 consecutive months, in the main floral sources used by bees in a secondary forest fragment. The foraging frequency of each bee species on flowers of each plant was recorded for 20-min periods, every hour. To verify whether the foraging activity is influenced by abiotic factors, Pearson's correlation analysis and linear regression tests were performed for the dominant bee species. Temperature and luminosity were the two main abiotic factors regulating foraging activities of bees. A positive correlation was found between the foraging frequency of most bees and these two variables. Conversely, the foraging activity was influenced neither by the relative humidity nor by the wind speed. The activity of each species depends on a combination of factors that include not only abiotic variables, but also the amount of floral resources available during the day, body size, and behavior of each visitor. After a certain period of the day, the scarcity of floral resources produced by most plants can stimulate the bees to forage in the flowers early in subsequent days, which may occur before the period in which the abiotic conditions are really favorable.en
dc.description.affiliationUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Biol, Sao Paulo, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUFGD, Fac Ciencias Biol & Ambientais, Dourados, MS, Brazil
dc.description.affiliationUnespUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Biol, Sao Paulo, Brazil
dc.format.extent593-612
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-014-9452-6
dc.identifier.citationJournal Of Insect Behavior. New York: Springer/plenum Publishers, v. 27, n. 5, p. 593-612, 2014.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10905-014-9452-6
dc.identifier.issn0892-7553
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/116317
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000340498500004
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofJournal Of Insect Behavior
dc.relation.ispartofjcr0.966
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,521
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectApis melliferaen
dc.subjectClimate conditionsen
dc.subjectFloral resourcesen
dc.subjectForagingen
dc.subjectGathering of resourcesen
dc.titleInfluence of Abiotic Factors and Floral Resource Availability on Daily Foraging Activity of Beesen
dc.typeArtigo
dcterms.licensehttp://www.springer.com/open+access/authors+rights?SGWID=0-176704-12-683201-0
dcterms.rightsHolderSpringer
dspace.entity.typePublication
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claropt
unesp.departmentBiologia - IBpt

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