Carlos Enrique Ruano- Principal Investigator at University of El Salvador
Carlos Enrique Ruano
- Principal Investigator at University of El Salvador
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This is the first complete inventory of stingless bees in El Salvador. It includes the spatial distribution of wild and managed colonies and the relationships between their occurrence and vegetation cover, altitude and temperature. Applying a stratified sampling, we located wild colonies (n = 477) and managed colonies (n = 686) of stingless bees in...
We estimated the maximum foraging distances of four species of neotropical stingless bees using two experimental methods. In the first experiment marked bees, which were released at different distances from the nest, were recaptured. The second method consisted of training bees on an artificial nectar source which was subsequently moved away from t...
