Diverse visitors with various pollinator importance and temporal change in the important pollinators of Geranium thunbergii (Geraniaceae)

Ecological Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 283-294

  Kandori, Ikuo ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Generalized system; Pollination efficiency; Seed set; Visit duration; Visitation frequency

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEED SET; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; DIPTERA; GERANIACEAE; GERANIUM THUNBERGII; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0037701532     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1703.2002.00488.x     Document Type: Article

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