Why Are There So Many Species? Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity and Northern Bumblebee Communities

1 January 1981

journal article
Published by JSTOR in Oikos

Vol. 36 (1) , 28
https://doi.org/10.2307/3544375

Abstract

It is proposed that (1) the different body sizes and proboscis lengths of bumblebee species lead to different optimal foraging patterns in different species. Th...

Keywords

PROBOSCIS
OPTIMAL
BODY SIZES
SPATIO TEMPORAL
TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY
BUMBLEBEE COMMUNITIES
NORTHERN BUMBLEBEE

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