Researchers learn about role of bees in tropical ecosystems using radio transmitters

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 09:21 in Biology & Nature

A New York State Museum scientist is one of several researchers who have become the first to use tiny radio transmitters to track bees over long distances in a forest habitat, yielding new insight into the role of bees in tropical forest ecosystems. The bee study research conducted by Dr Roland Kays, the Museum's curator of mammals, and the other scientists, was published in the online peer reviewed journal PLoS ONE on May 26th...

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