Partitioning of pollinators during flowering in an African Acacia community

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2808-2827

  Stone, Graham N ^a,d   Willmer, Pat ^b   Alexandra Rowe, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acacia; Bees; Character displacement; Competition, dehiscence, niche, pollination; Resource partitioning, Tanzania

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATOR; SAVANNA;

TANZANIA;

ACACIA;

EID: 0032435742     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[2808:popdfi]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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