Environmental consultancy: dancing bee bioindicators to evaluate landscape health

Here we explore how waggle dance decoding may be applied as a tool for ecology by evaluating the benefits and limitations of the methodology compared to other existing ways to evaluate the honey bees’ use of the landscape. The honey bee foragers sample and report back on large areas (c. 100km2). Bec...

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Main Authors: Margaret Jane Couvillon, Francis L.W. Ratnieks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2015.00044/full