How New Guinea rainforest flower resources vary in time and space: Implications for nectarivorous birds

Austral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 363-378

  Brown, Eleanor D ^a   Hopkins, Michael J G ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Flowering pattern; Honeyeaters; Lorikeets; Nectarivory; Phenology; Rainforest; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444374303     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1996.tb00623.x     Document Type: Article

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