Depressed pollination in habitat fragments causes low fruit set

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1448, 2000, Pages 1149-1152

  Cunningham, Saul A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fruit set decline; Habitat fragmentation; Plant animal interactions; Pollination decline

Indexed keywords

FRUIT SET; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POLLINATION;

ACACIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRUIT; PLANT; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; VEGETATION;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ACACIA; ACACIA BRACHYBOTRYA; ANIMALIA; EREMOPHILA; EREMOPHILA GLABRA;

EID: 0034616820     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1121     Document Type: Article

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