First confirmation of a native bird-pollinated plant in Europe

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 578-590

  Ortega Olivencia, Ana ^a   Rodríguez Riaño, Tomás ^a   Valtueña, Francisco J ^a   López, Josefa ^a   Devesa, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; POLLINATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

ANAGYRIS FOETIDA; AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS COLLYBITA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 24744466061     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13877.x     Document Type: Article

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