Flower constancy in bumblebees: a test of the trait variability hypothesis

By Robert J. Gegear, T. Laverty. 2005

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/0ebc9764b942aa5630b24a2dc550ad8e4106953b

How researchers see this paper

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Juan Moreira-Hernández
2. Colin Fontaine
3. I. Dajoz
4. Nathan Muchhala

In Genetics

1. Juan Moreira-Hernández
2. Colin Fontaine
3. I. Dajoz
4. Nathan Muchhala

In Insect Science

1. Colin Fontaine
2. I. Dajoz
3. Nathan Muchhala

Citations in the corpus

• Importance of Pollinator-Mediated Interspecific Pollen Transfer for Angiosperm Evolution (2019, background): “First, if accessing nectar rewards is complicated, this may encourage constancy to one flower type due to constraints on the ability to learn and remember how to manipulate multiple types (Chittka et al. 1999, Gegear & Laverty 2005, Laverty 1994).”
• Generalist foraging of pollinators: diet expansion at high density (2008, background): “It has been shown that pollinators are more selective when flower types differ in multiple traits (Gegear & Laverty 2005).”