Journal article
Nutritional composition of honey bee food stores vary with floral composition
- Abstract:
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Sufficiently diverse and abundant resources are essential for generalist consumers, and form an important part of a suite of conservation strategies for pollinators. Honey bees are generalist foragers and are dependent on diverse forage to adequately meet their nutritional needs. Through analysis of stored pollen (bee bread) samples obtained from 26 honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) hives across NW-England, we quantified bee bread nutritional content and the plant species that produced these stor...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Verlag Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Oecologia Journal website
- Volume:
- 185
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 749–761
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-04
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1432-1939
- ISSN:
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0029-8549
- Pmid:
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29032464
- Source identifiers:
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1016023
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- English
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pubs:1016023
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uuid:c7e1baa9-8c8f-4e05-abed-985ea6196487
- Local pid:
- pubs:1016023
- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Donkersley et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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