Garden flowers: Insect visits and the floral reward of horticulturally-modified variants

Annals of Botany

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 73-86

  Comba, Livio ^a,b   Corbet, Sarah A ^b   Barron, A ^b   Bird, A ^b   Collinge, S ^b   Miyazaki, N ^b   Powell, M ^b  

^a Zoology Department ^*  (Italy)

^b Zoology Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Bombus; Coevolution; Foraging; Garden plants; Horticultural modification; Insects; Nectar; Pollen; Pollinators

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; HORTICULTURE; INSECT;

ALCEA ROSEA; ANTIRRHINUM MAJUS; CONSOLIDA; TAGETES PATULA; TROPAEOLUM MAJUS; VIOLA WITTROCKIANA;

EID: 0032894473     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1998.0798     Document Type: Article

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