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BeeVisit
(Complete Item Description)
- Abstract:
BeeVisit enables students to evaluate the relative contributions of different pollinator species to a plant's reproductive success through an interactive model of pollen transfer.
The model tracks a plant's presentation of pollen through time; pollen may be presented gradually or all at once, and the program lets you choose from a family of power curves to model the shape of the cumulative pollen presentation curve over a set number of time intervals (usually 100). Then, 'bees' of 1, 2, or 3 types are allowed to visit the plant.
You specify the expected number and type of visits; this sets the probability of a visit occurring during each interval, and visits occur stochastically according to these probabilities.
- Subject:
- Science and Technology
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
- SubTopics:
- Animals and Insects
- Collection:
- BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium