Pollinator aggregative and functional responses to flower density: Does pollinator response to patches of plants accelerate at low-densities?

Oikos

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-140

  S Feldman, Tracy ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

APOIDEA; BOMBYLIIDAE; BRASSICA RAPA; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; LEPIDOPTERA; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 33749500547     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0030-1299.14493.x     Document Type: Article

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