Pollinator behaviour, not increased resources, boosts seed set on forest edges in a New Zealand Loranthaceous mistletoe

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-286

  Montgomery, Benjamin R ^a,b   Kelly, Dave ^a   Robertson, Alastair W ^c   Ladley, Jenny J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bird pollination; Edge effects; Fragmentation; Loranthaceae; Mistletoe; Peraxilla; Pollinator limitation; Resource limitation

Indexed keywords

ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST EDGE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POLLINATOR; SEED SET;

NEW ZEALAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LORANTHACEAE; NOTHOFAGUS; PERAXILLA TETRAPETALA; VISCUM; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 0142063417     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2003.9512846     Document Type: Article

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