Sex and pollen: The role of males in stabilising a plant-seed eater pollinating mutualism

Oecologia

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-66

  Després, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

Pollen load; Pollination; Sex specific behaviour; Specialisation; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; MUTUALISM; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEED PREDATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOMYIIDAE; CHIASTOCHETA; COROLLA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; RANUNCULACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA; SYRPHIDAE; TROLLIUS; TROLLIUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 0037360063     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1181-z     Document Type: Article

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