Individual reflectance of solar radiation confers a thermoregulatory benefit to dimorphic males bees (Centris pallida) using distinct microclimates

Meghan Barrett; Sean O’Donnell

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0271250

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Individual reflectance of solar radiation confers a thermoregulatory benefit to dimorphic males bees (Centris pallida) using distinct microclimates

Meghan Barrett ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: meghan.barrett21@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Biology, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1270-4983

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Sean O’Donnell

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Department of Biodiversity, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
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Individual reflectance of solar radiation confers a thermoregulatory benefit to dimorphic males bees (Centris pallida) using distinct microclimates

Meghan Barrett,
Sean O’Donnell

Published: March 14, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271250

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Author correction of Table 5

Posted by MeghanBarrett on 16 Mar 2023 at 04:05 GMT

Table 5 was not properly formatted in the final version of the publication (the 4 rows were collapsed into 2 rows), and issuing a correction is challenging; PLoS has suggested I clarify the table results in a comment. I provide a clarified version of the table as text, below:

Comparison Region -- Effect -- F -- p-value
cNIR -- Mean VIS reflectance -- 169.99 -- < 0.0001
cNIR -- Sex/morph -- 6.28 -- 0.0059
fNIR -- Mean VIS reflectance -- 82.16 -- < 0.0001
fNIR - Sex/morph -- 3.37 -- 0.0498

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Individual reflectance of solar radiation confers a thermoregulatory benefit to dimorphic males bees (Centris pallida) using distinct microclimates

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