This dataset contains data and scripts that supplement the publication Lichtenberg et al. (2020) Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy. Ecological Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/een.12866 Please cite the above article if you use any of the included data or code.

A longstanding question in ecology is how species interactions are structured within communities. Although evolutionary theory predicts close size matching between floral nectar tube depth and pollinator proboscis length of interacting species, such size matching has seldom been shown and explained

The potential for a trade-offs between these two components of pollinator service exists when visit duration depends on reward quantity; whether the trade-off is realized will depend on variation in nectar production and on whether pollinators forage systematically.

Trapline foraging—repeated sequential visits to a series of feeding locations—presents interesting problems seldom treated in foraging models. Work on traplining is hampered by the lack of statistical, operational approaches for detecting its existence and measuring its strength. We propose several

It is found that pseudoflower fragrance can attract visitors by itself, and the ability of insects to differentiate pseudoflowers from true flowers by their fragrance may be important in the evolution of the mimicry system.

1. A standardized protocol for analysing the behaviour of pollinators foraging on more than one plant type (species or morph) is needed. 2. A protocol is presented in which the first step is to test whether foraging trips are homogeneous in the frequency of visits to each plant type, or whether ther

A pervasive idea among pollination biologists is that bees cannot see red flowers. This idea has led many workers to assume that red coloration is an adaptation by which flowers exclude bees as visitors. However, recent empirical and theoretical evidence strongly supports the alternative view, that

Carol L. Boggs, Dennis D. Murphy, Community Composition in Mountain Ecosystems: Climatic Determinants of Montane Butterfly Distributions, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters, Vol. 6, No. 1, Mountain Ecology: Organism Responses to Environmental Change (Jan., 1997), pp. 39-48