Crab spiders show mixed effects on flower-visiting bees and no effect on plant fitness components

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 244-247

  Dukas, Reuven ^a   Morse, Douglass H ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bees; Crab spiders; Insect plant interactions; Pollination; Predation

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; PREDATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; ARANEAE; ASCLEPIAS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 21444448592     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-2-244.1     Document Type: Article

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