Coloured nectar: Distribution, ecology, and evolution of an enigmatic floral trait

Biological Reviews

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-111

  Hansen, Dennis M ^a   Olesen, Jens M ^b   Mione, Thomas ^c   Johnson, Steven D ^d   Müller, Christine B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Floral filter; Floral trait; Honest signal; Mutualism; Nectar properties; Pollination biology; Pollinator attraction; Signalling theory

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANGIOSPERM; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FLORA; FLOWER COLOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HYPOTHESIS; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PLANT TAXONOMY; PLEIOTROPY; POLLINATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

ALTITUDE; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; POLLEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33847131430     PISSN: 1469185X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2006.00005.x     Document Type: Review

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