Pollinator activity can explain variation in outcrossing rates within individual trees

Austral Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 319-324

  Hingston, Andrew B ^a   Potts, Brad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bird pollination; Generalization and specialization; Mixed mating system; Pollination syndromes; Reproductive assurance

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; ORNITHOPHILY; OUTCROSSING; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 20444376193     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01476.x     Document Type: Article

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