Visitor assemblages at flowers in a tropical rainforest canopy

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-42

  Kitching, R L ^b   Boulter, S L ^b   Howlett, B G ^a,b   Goodall, K ^b  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy; Flower visitors; Pollination; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; FLOWER VISITING; FOREST CANOPY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CAPE TRIBULATION; QUEENSLAND;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DIPTERA; ELATERIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; NORMANBYA NORMANBYI; PHALACRIDAE; SCARABAEIDAE; SYZYGIUM GUSTAVIOIDES; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 33846486907     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01733.x     Document Type: Article

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