Describing bee foraging patterns by eavesdropping on the waggle dance

这个项目旨在了解蜜蜂--我们农作物的关键传粉者--是如何在这片土地上活动的。你将通过记录、解码和分析摇摆舞来做到这一点：蜜蜂与蜂箱的交流。蜜蜂的觅食模式是在优化搜索效率和最小化运输成本之间取得平衡。你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。这一跨学科项目适合对蜜蜂建模和/或经验性工作感兴趣的考生，它提供了观察和分析蜜蜂行为的机会，并开发了分析工具。

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.