Tag: bumblebees

#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

How timing shapes scientific stories

This blog post is provided by Rachel Dickson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Behavioral responses by a bumble bee to competition with a niche-constructing congener”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Rachel Dickson has spent the past ten years working as a plant-pollinator ecologist. She has studied bumble bees in Argentina, honey bees in Kenya and the phenologies and … Continue reading How timing shapes scientific stories

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Stressful environments put bumblebees at risk

This blog post is provided by Cristina Botías and Dave Goulson and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Multiple stressors interact to impair the performance of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies”. Cristina Botías is a Research Fellow at the Apicultural and Agri-environmental Research Center (CIAPA-IRIAF, Spain), working on a range of applied research related to bee health. Dave Goulson is a Professor of Biology at the University … Continue reading Stressful environments put bumblebees at risk

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