Foraging trip duration of bumblebees in relation to landscape‐wide resource availability

Abstract 1. The study tested the hypotheses that bumblebees have shorter foraging trips in environments that provide abundant resources than in environments that provide sparse resources, and that shorter foraging trips translate into greater colony growth.

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