The Scarcity of Specific Nutrients in Wild Bee Larval Food Negatively Influences Certain Life History Traits
Bee nutrition studies have focused on food quantity rather than quality, and on details of bee biology rather than on the functioning of bees in ecosystems. Ecological stoichiometry has been proposed for studies on bee nutritional ecology as an ecosystem-oriented approach complementary to traditiona...
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MDPI AG
2020-12-01
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Series: | Biology |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/9/12/462 |