Exploring the 'most effective pollinator principle' with complex flowers: Bumblebees and Ipomopsis aggregata

Annals of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 591-596

  Mayfield, Margaret M ^a,b   Waser, Nickolas M ^a,c   Price, Mary V ^a,c  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bumblebees; Floral evolution; Hummingbirds; Ipomopsis aggregata; Pollination syndromes; Pollinator effectiveness; Scarlet gilia; Seed set; Specialization; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; POLLINATOR;

IPOMOPSIS AGGREGATA;

EID: 0034769899     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.2001.1500     Document Type: Article

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