著者
伊藤 博道
巻号頁・発行日
2012

筑波大学博士 (医学) 学位論文・平成24年4月30日授与 (甲第6281号)
著者
Ohashi Kazuharu Leslie Alison Thomson James D.
出版者
Oxford University Press
雑誌
Behavioral ecology (ISSN:10452249)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.24, no.3, pp.768-778, 2013-05
被引用文献数
9

Animals collecting food from renewable resource patches scattered in space often establish small foraging areas to which they return faithfully. Such area fidelity offers foraging advantages through selection of profitable patches, route minimization, and regular circuit visits to these patches (“trapline foraging”). Resource distribution under field conditions may often vary in time, however, especially when competitors suddenly vanish and a number of patches become available for their neighbors. Previous studies suggested that site-faithful foragers of bumble bees quickly respond to such unexpected events by readjusting their foraging areas, although it is not clear how much their foraging performance was improved, beyond the simple relaxation of competitive pressure, or how they manifest such flexibility while persistently using certain foraging areas or paths. Here, we conducted indoor flight-cage experiments with bumble bees and found that a bee, when encountering a loss of its competitor, improved its foraging performance to a greater extent than expected from a simple relaxation of competitive pressure by increasing the size of its foraging area. Moreover, bees with better-established traplines achieved greater foraging areas after the loss of competitors, suggesting that bees do not necessarily need to “sample” neighboring patches to monitor temporal changes in environments. We discuss how periodical returns and route memory associated with accurate reward values could allow inherently conservative trapliners to make flexible adjustments, by effectively monitoring their circumstances and quickly readjusting to detected changes.
著者
野口 剛
巻号頁・発行日
2012

筑波大学博士 (農学) 学位論文・平成24年7月25日授与 (乙第2609号)
著者
山下 祐司
巻号頁・発行日
2008

筑波大学博士 (農学) 学位論文・平成20年3月25日授与 (甲第4692号)
著者
池内 有為
巻号頁・発行日
2013-10-25

第3回 SPARC Japan セミナー2013 平成25年10月25日(金曜日),会場:国立情報学研究所,テーマ:「オープンアクセス時代の研究成果のインパクトを再定義する:再利用とAltmetricsの現在」
著者
Iacob Alina
出版者
Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba
雑誌
Tsukuba journal of mathematics (ISSN:03874982)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.29, no.2, pp.389-404, 2005-12
著者
水野 亜季
巻号頁・発行日
2013

Thesis (Ph. D. in Science)--University of Tsukuba, (A), no. 6486, 2013.3.25