Matters of Size: Behavioral, Morphological, and Physiological Performance Scaling Among Stingless Bees (Meliponini)
abstract: Body size plays a pervasive role in determining physiological and behavioral performance across animals. It is generally thought that smaller animals are limited in performance measures compared to larger animals; yet, the vast majority of animals on earth are small and evolutionary trends...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.51793 |