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individual fitness — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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individual fitness

Scope: population ecology

Papers: 2 | Mentions: 2

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Knowledge graph centered on individual fitness with 50 nodes and 146 connections. Top connected: Bombus, Ligusticum porteri, Bombus terrestris, Bombus appositus, Bombus impatiens.

Definition

Lifetime reproductive output of individual organisms, measured as total brood cell production across all nests for female bees

Related Terms (4)

reproductive outputbrood cell productioncolony performancecolony efficiency

Publications (2)

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change Biologycentral

The relationship between the distribution of worker sizes and new worker production in the ant Formica neorufibarbis

2002Oecologiameasured

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social caste system

framework1 shared paper

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process1 shared paper

structural equation modeling

model type1 shared paper

cavity-nesting bees

phenomenon1 shared paper

reproductive output

measurement1 shared paper

caste distribution function

measurement1 shared paper

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Vicia americana

Fabaceae1 paper

Ligusticum porteri

Apiaceae1 paper

Tribolium castaneum

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Borago officinalis

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Osmia

Megachilidae1 paper

Apis mellifera

Osmia bicornis

Megachilidae1 paper

Dieunomia

Halictidae1 paper

Helianthus

Asteraceae1 paper