Pollination ecology and effect of nectar removal in Macleania bullata (Ericaceae)

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 618-625

  Navarro, Luis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Colombia; Diurnal pollination; Hummingbird pollination; Macleania bullata; Nectar robbing; Nocturnal pollination

Indexed keywords

COST; NECTAR; POLLINATION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; CHLOROSTILBON MELLISUGUS; COELIGENA TORQUATA; DORYFERA LUDOVICIAE; ERICACEAE; GRANULINA; MACLEANIA BULLATA; OCREATUS UNDERWOODI; OCREATUS UNDERWOODII; PAPILIONOIDEA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0033493004     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00410.x     Document Type: Article

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