Pollinator abundance and pollen limitation of a solanaceous shrub at premontane and lower montane sites

Biotropica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-61

  Stone, Judy L ^a   Jenkins, Elli G ^a  

^a Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Bees; Bet hedging; Costa Rica; Pollination; Range limits; Solanaceae; Witheringia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALTITUDE; BEE; FRUIT SET; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; POLLEN LIMITATION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SHRUB;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SOLANACEAE; WITHERINGIA; WITHERINGIA SOLANACEA;

EID: 38149057203     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2007.00339.x     Document Type: Article

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