Diurnal palm pollination by mystropine beetles: Is it weather-related?

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 149-171

  Nunez L A ^a   Bernal, R ^a   Knudsen, J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^b GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arecaceae; Attalea allenii; Diurnal periodicity; Floral scent; Mystrops; Pollination ecology; Thermogenesis; Wettinia quinaria

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; ARECACEAE; ATTALEA; ATTALEA ALLENII; COLEOPTERA; NITIDULIDAE; WETTINIA;

EID: 23944476330     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-005-0340-6     Document Type: Article

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