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1 National Centre of Excellence, Statistical and Mathematical Modelling on Bioresources Management (MHRD), Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, IN
2 Department of Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, IN
3 Department of Mathematics,Thiagarajar College, Madurai 625 009, IN
Source
Current Science, Vol 107, No 12 (2014), Pagination: 1988-1996
Abstract
Due to environmental stress honey bees frequently make foraging shifts. Encounter with any nonflowering agent during such shifts leads to colony collapse. To assess the impact of non-flowering agents in the pollination network, we have modelled the pollination network as polligraphs using graph theoretical tools. Based on the outcome of the model we have extracted a few new network parameters and characterized the stability of the pollination network.
Keywords
Honey Bees, Non-Flowering Agent, Polligraph, Pollination Network.
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