Describing bee foraging patterns by eavesdropping on the waggle dance

通过偷听摇摆舞来描述蜜蜂的觅食模式

• 批准号: 2253392
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2253392
• 关键词: Describing; bee; foraging; patterns; eavesdropping

This project aims to understand how honeybees -key pollinators for our crops- move through the landscape. You will do this by recording, decoding and analysing the waggle dance: the communication of bees with the hive. Honeybee foraging patterns are a balance between optimising search efficiency and minimising transport costs. You will use modelling and statistics to understand how these factors are balanced and what shapes the bees' movement patterns. This interdisciplinary project, suitable for candidates interested in modelling and/or empirical work with honeybees, offers the opportunity to observe and analyse bees' behaviour and develop the tools to analyse this.

该项目旨在了解蜜蜂-我们作物的关键授粉者-如何在景观中移动。你将通过记录、解码和分析摇摆舞来做到这一点：蜜蜂与蜂巢的交流。蜜蜂觅食模式是优化搜索效率和最小化运输成本之间的平衡。您将使用建模和统计来了解这些因素是如何平衡的，以及是什么塑造了蜜蜂的运动模式。这个跨学科项目适合对蜜蜂建模和/或实证工作感兴趣的候选人，提供了观察和分析蜜蜂行为并开发分析工具的机会。