Pollination biology and the relative importance of nocturnal and diurnal pollinators in three species of Sonoran desert columnar cacti

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-269

  Fleming, Theodore H ^a   Tuttle, Merlin D ^b   Horner, Margaret A ^c  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; AVES; CACTACEAE; CARNEGIA GIGANTEA; CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA; LEPIDOPTERA; PACHYCEREUS PRINGLEI; STENOCEREUS THURBERI;

EID: 0030441087     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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