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foraging investment

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

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Definition

The energetic cost of provisioning brood cells, measured by number of foraging flights per completed cell and provision mass

Related Terms (2)

provisioning effortforaging flights

Publications (2)

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021Oecologiameasured

Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

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