Bee boys and fly girls: Do pollinators prefer male or female umbels in protandrous parsnip, Trachymene incisa (Apiaceae)?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 798-807

  Davila, Yvonne C ^a,b   Wardle, Glenda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Royal Botanic Gardens Trust   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dichogamy; Floral reward; Generalist pollination; Insect visitation; Pollinator preference

Indexed keywords

BEE; ENTOMOPHILY; FLOWER VISITING; FLY; HERB; INBREEDING; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR;

AGNES BANKS; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; MYALL LAKE; NEW SOUTH WALES;

APIACEAE; APIALES; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; PASTINACA SATIVA; TRACHYMENE INCISA;

EID: 35248891458     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01757.x     Document Type: Article

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