Effects of nectar content on the number of bumblebee approaches and the length of visitation sequences in Echium vulgate (Boraginaceae)

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 580-586

  Pappers, Stephanie M ^a,b   De Jong, Tom J ^a   Klinkhamer, Peter G L ^a   Meelis, Evert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; NECTAR; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; BORAGINACEAE; ECHIUM; ECHIUM VULGARE; ECHIUM VULGATE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033389960     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546822     Document Type: Article

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