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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zuzanna M. Filipiak, Michał Filipiak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
Series:Biology
Subjects:
bee
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/9/12/462