Global warming and the disruption of plant-pollinator interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 710-717

  Memmott, Jane ^a   Craze, Paul G ^a   Waser, Nickolas M ^b   Price, Mary V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Insects; Network; Phenology; Plants; Pollination

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTINCTION; GLOBAL WARMING; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ILLINOIS; INSECTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34347207194     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01061.x     Document Type: Article

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