Homeostasis : humidity and water relations in honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera)
One of the benefits of colonial living in insect societies is the ability to build a nest which enables the maintenance of a homeostatic microenvironment. The detrimental and uncertain effects of fluctuating ambient conditions are thus avoided. An extensive amount of work has documented the regulati...
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University of Pretoria
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28357 Ellis, MB 2008, Homeostasis : humidity and water relations in honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera), MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28357 > http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10022009-135223/ |