Reproductive ecology of understory species in a tropical montane forest in Costa Rica

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 637-645

  Wesselingh, Renate A ^a,b   Witteveldt, Martin ^a   Morissette, Julienne ^a,c   Den Nijs, Hans C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breeding system; Bumblebee; Cloud forest; Costa Rica; Flower life span; Fruit set; Pollination; Pre dispersal seed predation; Reproductive success; Talamanca; Understory

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTION; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CORDILLERA DE TALAMANCA; COSTA RICA;

BOMBUS EPHIPPIATUS; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; QUERCUS;

EID: 0033493072     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00412.x     Document Type: Article

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