Influence of Abiotic Factors and Floral Resource Availability on Daily Foraging Activity of Bees

dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.contributorUFGD
dc.creatorPolatto, Leandro P. [UNESP]
dc.creatorChaud-Netto, Jose [UNESP]
dc.creatorAlves-Junior, Valter V.
dc.date2015-03-18T15:53:03Z
dc.date2015-03-18T15:53:03Z
dc.date2014-09-01
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-09T11:02:47Z
dc.date.available2023-09-09T11:02:47Z
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10905-014-9452-6
dc.identifierJournal Of Insect Behavior. New York: Springer/plenum Publishers, v. 27, n. 5, p. 593-612, 2014.
dc.identifier0892-7553
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/116317
dc.identifier10.1007/s10905-014-9452-6
dc.identifierWOS:000340498500004
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8765804
dc.descriptionIn this study, the daily and seasonal influences of abiotic factors and the amount of floral resources on the foraging frequency of bees were determined. The experiments were performed, during 12 consecutive months, in the main floral sources used by bees in a secondary forest fragment. The foraging frequency of each bee species on flowers of each plant was recorded for 20-min periods, every hour. To verify whether the foraging activity is influenced by abiotic factors, Pearson's correlation analysis and linear regression tests were performed for the dominant bee species. Temperature and luminosity were the two main abiotic factors regulating foraging activities of bees. A positive correlation was found between the foraging frequency of most bees and these two variables. Conversely, the foraging activity was influenced neither by the relative humidity nor by the wind speed. The activity of each species depends on a combination of factors that include not only abiotic variables, but also the amount of floral resources available during the day, body size, and behavior of each visitor. After a certain period of the day, the scarcity of floral resources produced by most plants can stimulate the bees to forage in the flowers early in subsequent days, which may occur before the period in which the abiotic conditions are really favorable.
dc.descriptionUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Biol, Sao Paulo, Brazil
dc.descriptionUFGD, Fac Ciencias Biol & Ambientais, Dourados, MS, Brazil
dc.descriptionUniv Estadual Paulista, Inst Biociencias Rio Claro, Dept Biol, Sao Paulo, Brazil
dc.format593-612
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relationJournal Of Insect Behavior
dc.relation0.966
dc.relation0,521
dc.rightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectApis mellifera
dc.subjectClimate conditions
dc.subjectFloral resources
dc.subjectForaging
dc.subjectGathering of resources
dc.titleInfluence of Abiotic Factors and Floral Resource Availability on Daily Foraging Activity of Bees
dc.typeArtigo


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