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Bumblebee economics / Bernd Heinrich.
LIBRA QL568.A6 H39 1979
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-
- Series:
- Harvard paperback.
- A Harvard paperback.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bumblebees--Ecology.
- Bumblebees.
- Bioenergetics.
- Insects--Ecology.
- Insects.
- Bees.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Energy Metabolism.
- Ecology.
- Insecta--economics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bees.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Energy Metabolism.
- Ecology.
- Insecta--economics.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1979.
- Contents:
- 1. The colony cycle
- 2. Economy of the colony
- 3. The flight machine and its temperature
- 4. Warming up
- 5. Heating the nest
- 6. The heat transfer system
- 7. Juggling costs and benefits
- 8. Commuting and foraging movements
- 9. Foraging optimization by individual initiative
- 10. Competition between species
- 11. Pollination and energetics
- 12. Ecology and coevolution
- App. A. How to rear bumblebees
- App. B. The bumblebees of North America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Heinrich, Bernd, 1940- Bumblebee economics.
- ISBN:
- 0674085809
- 9780674085800
- 0674085817
- 9780674085817
- OCLC:
- 4493270
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