Pollen-size comparisons among animal-pollinated angiosperms with different pollination characteristics

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 513-525

  Harder, Lawrence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bee pollination; Bird pollination; Buzz pollination; Plant mating; Pollen diameter; Pollen transport; Pollen volume; Pollinator type; Siring success

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOWERING PLANT; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

EID: 0031706521     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1998.0235     Document Type: Article

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