Benefits and constraints on plant defense against herbivores: Spines influence the legitimate and illegitimate flower visitors of yellow star thistle, Centaurea solstitialis L. (Asteraceae)

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-5

  Agrawal, Anurag A ^a,b   Rudgers, Jennifer A ^a   Botsford, Louis W ^a   Cutler, David ^a   Gorin, Jessica B ^a   Lundquist, Carolyn J ^a   Spitzer, Brian W ^a   Swann, Alisa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS;

EID: 0034119025     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672545     Document Type: Review

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