Claim · model-written summary
Nectar-robbing increased bumblebee neighborhood size relative to the control area.
- Taxon
- Impatiens capensis
Impatiens capensist0 - Treatment
- nectar-robbed patche3
- Interactor
- Bombus vagans
Bombus vaganse0pollinator - Outcome
- neighborhood sizee3
- Direction
- increasee3
- Comparator
- control areae3
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Impatiens capensis”
e0“Bombus vagans workers were observed collecting nectar from two populations of Impatiens capensis”
e3“The increased frequency of longdistance bee flights associated with the abundant low-quality reward blossoms in the nectar-robbed patch served to increase neighborhood size relative to the control area”
Title
Pollinator Foraging, Experimental Nectar-robbing and Plant Fitness in Impatiens capensis
Michael Zimmerman; Susan Cook The American Midland Naturalist 1985. doi:10.2307/2425350
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Nectar-robbing increased the distance pollen was transported relative to the control population.
- Intervention effect Bumblebees made more long-distance flights in the nectar-robbed patch than in the control area.
- Observation Bombus vagans showed area-restricted searching behavior in both populations.
- Intervention effect Seed set did not differ between robbed and unrobbed blossoms.
- Intervention effect Nectar-robbing may enhance female fitness in Impatiens capensis.