Page, Robert E.
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자료유형 | E-BOOK |
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서명/저자사항 | The art of the bee : shaping the environment from landscapes to societies/ Robert E. Page Jr. |
개인저자 | Page, Robert E.,author. |
발행사항 | New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2020]. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages): illustrations. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Page, Robert E.. The art of the bee New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780197504147 |
ISBN | 9780197504154 0197504159 0197504167 9780197504161 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
요약 | "The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities and have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment. The biology of the honey bee is one that reflects their role in transforming environments with their anatomical adaptations and a complex language that together function to exploit floral resources. A complex social system that includes a division of labour builds, defends, and provisions nests containing tens of thousands of individuals, only one of whom reproduces. Traditional biology texts present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates levels of biological organization, each building on the last. This book presents fundamental biology, not in layers, but wrapped around interesting themes and concepts, and in ways designed to explore and understand each concept. It examines the coevolution of bees and flowering plants, bees as engineers of the environment, the evolution of sociality, the honey bee as a superorganism and how it evolves, and the mating behaviour of the queen"-- |
해제 | Provided by publisher. |
일반주제명 | Bees --Behavior. Social behavior in animals. Bees --Behavior. Social behavior in animals. |
언어 | 영어 |
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