Consistent pollen nutritional intake drives bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colony growth and reproduction across different habitats

Agriculture & Biology

• Bombus 73%
• Bombus impatiens 100%
• edge effects 10%
• foraging 21%
• forest habitats 10%
• habitats 37%
• Impatiens 51%
• insects 5%
• lipids 19%
• nutrients 11%
• nutrition 7%
• nutritive value 21%
• plant communities 17%
• pollen 50%
• pollen proteins 13%
• proteins 9%
• rearing 7%
• reproductive performance 8%
• sugars 6%
• valleys 8%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• bee 80%
• fitness 7%
• foraging behavior 9%
• forest edge 9%
• habitat 39%
• insect 6%
• lipid 24%
• nutrient 9%
• nutrition 7%
• plant community 13%
• plant species 6%
• pollen 58%
• protein 20%
• rate 2%
• rearing 8%
• resource 12%
• sugar 7%
• valley 4%