Interspecific pollen loss by hummingbirds visiting flower mixtures: Effects of floral architecture

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 550-560

  Murcia, Carolina ^a   Feinsinger, Eter ^b,c  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Colombia)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Cloud forest; Competition for pollination; Costa Rica; Flower mixtures; Heterostyly; Hummingbirds; Interspecific pollen transfer; Pollen carry over; Pollen placement; Pollen Scraping Hypothesis; Sexual Architecture Hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COROLLA; LAMPORNIS; LAMPORNIS CALOLAEMA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PALICOUREA; PALICOUREA LASIORRACHIS; RUBIACEAE; TROCHILIDAE;

CLOUD FOREST; FLORAL ARCHITECTURE; HUMMINGBIRD; INTERSPECIFIC POLLEN TRANSFER; POLLINATION; SEXUAL ARCHITECTURE HYPOTHESIS;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0030404521     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265629     Document Type: Article

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