Interspecific pollinator movements and heterospecific incompatibility: Comparisons between Phyllodoce caerulea and Phyllodoce aleutica along snowmelt gradients

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-87

  Kasagi, Tetsuya ^a   Kudo, Gaku ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpine snowbed plants; Bumblebee; Heterospecific incompatibility; Interspecific pollinator movement; Reciprocal pollination; Reproductive isolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844342446     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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