Negative impacts of a vertebrate predator on insect pollinator visitation and seed output in Chuquiraga oppositifolia, a high Andean shrub

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-73

  Muñoz, Alejandro A ^a   Arroyo, Mary T K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Anti predatory behaviour; Central Chilean Andes; Plant reproductive output; Plant pollinator interactions; Vertebrate predators

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED PRODUCTION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIRD; CHILE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIZARD; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; BIRDS; CHILE; LIZARDS; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS;

ANDES; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; ASTERACEAE; AVES; CHUQUIRAGA OPPOSITIFOLIA; COSMOSATYRUS CHILENSIS; DIPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LIOLAEMUS; MELANOSTOMA; MUSCISAXICOLA; NYMPHALIDAE; SCAEVA; SCAEVA MELANOSTOMA; SPERMATOPHYTA; SQUAMATA; SYRPHIDAE; TROPIDURINAE; TYRANNIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 10744230146     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1405-2     Document Type: Article

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