Effectiveness of short-tongued bees as pollinators of apparently ornithophilous New Zealand mistletoes

Austral Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-309

  Robertson, Alastair W ^a   Ladley, Jenny J ^b   Kelly, Dave ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mixed pollination system; Ornithophily; Peraxilla; Pollinator effectiveness; Pollinator syndrome

Indexed keywords

ENTOMOPHILY; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; ORNITHOPHILY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

APOIDEA; AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LORANTHACEAE; PERAXILLA; PERAXILLA COLENSOI; PERAXILLA TETRAPETALA; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 18844410227     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01474.x     Document Type: Article

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