Patch size and landscape effects on pollinators and seed set of the horseshoe vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, in an agricultural landscape of central Europe

Entomologia Generalis

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-185

  Meyer, Birgit ^a   Gaebele, Volker ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcareous grasslands; Foraging behaviour; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape diversity; Patch size; Pollination limitation; Reproductive success; Self incompatible; Visitation rate

Indexed keywords

HIPPOCREPIS COMOSA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 36549016622     PISSN: 01718177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/entom.gen/30/2007/173     Document Type: Article

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