Sonoran Desert columnar cacti and the evolution of generalized pollination systems

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 511-530

  Fleming, Theodore H ^a   Sahley, Catherine T ^b   Holland, J Nathaniel ^a   Nason, John D ^c   Hamrick, J L ^d  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b Asociación para la Investigación y Conservación de la Naturaleza   (Peru)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat pollination; Bird pollination; Columnar cacti; Flowering phenology; Fruit set; Functional redundancy and complementarity; Generalized pollination systems; Geographic variation; Sonoran Desert; Specialized pollination systems

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; EVOLUTION; FLOWERING; PHENOLOGY; POLLINATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARIZONA; MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA; LEPTONYCTERIS CURASOAE; LOPHOCEREUS SCHOTTII; PACHYCEREUS PRINGLEI; STENOCEREUS THURBERI;

EID: 0035198744     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2001)071[0511:SDCCAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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