Community context of an obligate mutualism: Pollinator and florivore effects on Yucca filamentosa

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 905-913

  Althoff, David M ^a   Segraves, Kari A ^a   Pellmyr, Olle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Community context; Florivory; Mutualism; Path analysis; Tegeticula cassandra; Yucca filamentosa; Yucca yucca moth mutualism

Indexed keywords

FRUIT SET; HERBIVORY; MUTUALISM; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COLEOPTERA; HEMIPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LEPTOGLOSSUS PHYLLOPUS; PHYLLOPUS; PRODOXIDAE; TEGETICULA CASSANDRA; TEGETICULA YUCCASELLA; YUCCA; YUCCA FILAMENTOSA;

EID: 16844365148     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1454     Document Type: Article

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