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

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Author	Polatto, Leandro P. Chaud Netto, José Alves Junior, Valter V.
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	In 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.
Starting Page	593
Ending Page	612
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08927553
Journal	Journal of Insect Behavior
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15728889
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-05-08
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Apis mellifera Climate conditions Floral resources Foraging Gathering of resources Entomology Behavioural Sciences Neurobiology Agriculture Animal Ecology Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science

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