ReviewInsects2019
The Role of Landscapes and Landmarks in Bee Navigation: A Review.
Review in Insects, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- From Plant Metabolites to Pollinator Safety: Rethinking Selectivity of Botanical Insecticides in Bees-A Review.Biology · 2026Review
- Simultaneous path-integration recalibration in head direction and place cells.Current biology : CB · 2026Article
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- Synchronized path-integration recalibration but distinct landmark-control dynamics in head direction and CA1 place cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Bumblebees locate goals in 3D with absolute height estimation from ventral optic flow.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- NSF Workshop Report: Exploring Measurements and Interpretations of Intelligent Behaviors Across Animal Model Systems.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
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- Monarch butterflies memorize the spatial location of a food source.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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- Humans, fish, spiders and bees inherited working memory and attention from their last common ancestor.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The ability of animals to explore landmarks in their environment is essential to their fitness. Landmarks are widely recognized to play a key role in navigation by providing information in multiple sensory modalities. However, what is a landmark? We propose that animals use a hierarchy of information based upon its utility and salience when an animal is in a given motivational state. Focusing on honeybees, we suggest that foragers choose landmarks based upon their relative uniqueness, conspicuousness, stability, and context. We also propose that it is useful to distinguish between landmarks that provide sensory input that changes ("near") or does not change ("far") as the receiver uses these landmarks to navigate. However, we recognize that this distinction occurs on a continuum and is not a clear-cut dichotomy. We review the rich literature on landmarks, focusing on recent studies that have illuminated our understanding of the kinds of information that bees use, how they use it, potential mechanisms, and future research directions.
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