Effects of pollinator loss on endemic New Zealand mistletoes (Loranthaceae)

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 499-508

  Robertson, Alastair W ^a   Kelly, Dave ^b   Ladley, Jenny J ^b   Sparrow, Ashley D ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLLINATION; POPULATION DECLINE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032998776     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97471.x     Document Type: Article

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