Floral colour diversity in plant communities, bee colour space and a null model

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1429, 1999, Pages 1711-1716

  Gumbert, A ^a   Kunze, J ^a   Chittka, L ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Community ecology; Divergence; Flower colour; Pollination

Indexed keywords

COLOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

ARTICLE; BEE; COLOR; COLOR VISION; ECOLOGY; GERMANY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033595338     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0836     Document Type: Article

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