Effects of flower and seed predators and pollinators on fruit production in two sequentially flowering congeners

Plant Ecology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-48

  Mahoro, Suzuki ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Iwate Prefectural Museum   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bumblebee; Flowering phenology; Mecysmoderes; Pre dispersal seed predation; Temporal variation; Vaccinium

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; FRUIT PRODUCTION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PHENOLOGY; POLLINATION; SEED PREDATION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM HIRTUM; VACCINIUM SMALLII;

EID: 0037656442     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023203325501     Document Type: Article

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