Pollinator diversity affects plant reproduction and recruitment: The tradeoffs of generalization

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 597-605

  Gómez, José M ^a   Bosch, Jordi ^b   Perfectti, Francisco ^a   Fernández, Juande ^a   Abdelaziz, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Erysimum; Pollination generalization; Pollinator diversity; Spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANGIOSPERM; FLOWER VISITING; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENERALIST; POLLINATOR; RECRUITMENT; REPRODUCTION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ERYSIMUM; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ERYSIMUM; INSECTS; POLLINATION;

BRASSICACEAE; ERYSIMUM; ERYSIMUM MEDIOHISPANICUM; HEXAPODA; UNGULATA;

EID: 34547773710     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0758-3     Document Type: Article

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