Body size distributions of large Costa Rican dry forest moths and the underlying relationship between plant and pollinator morphology

Oikos

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 183-193

  Agosta, Salvatore J ^a   Janzen, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DRY FOREST; MORPHOLOGY; MOTH; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; COROLLA; LEPIDOPTERA; SATURNIIDAE; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 13444268025     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13504.x     Document Type: Article

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