The openness of a flower and its number of flower-visitor species

Taxon

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 729-736

  Olesen, Jens M ^a   Dupont, Yoko L ^a   Ehlers, Bodil K ^a   Hansen, Dennis M ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blossom class; Ecomorphology; Generalization level; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ECOMORPHOLOGY; FLOWER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NECTAR; POLLEN; POLLINATION;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34848920058     PISSN: 00400262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25065857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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