Sugar composition of nectars and fruits consumed by birds and bats in the tropics and subtropics

Biotropica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 559-586

  Baker, Herbert G ^a   Baker, Irene ^a   Hodges, Scott A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Erythrina; Fruit juice; Hummingbirds; Megachiroptera; Microchiroptera; Nectar; Passerine; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

ERYTHRINA;

EID: 0032322743     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1998.tb00097.x     Document Type: Article

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