A survey of pollination in remnant orchid populations in Soconusco, Chiapas, Mexico

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-14

  Damon, Anne ^a   Salas Roblero, Pedro ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Centris; Coffee agroecosystem; Deforestation; Epiphyte; Euglossa; Eulema; ex situ conservation; Neocorynura; sustainable orchid cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANGIOSPERM; BEE; COFFEE; CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ENTOMOPHILY; EPIPHYTE; FLY; POLLINATION;

CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; SOCONUSCO;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BRASSAVOLA CUCULLATA; CECIDOMYIIDAE; CENTRIS; EUGLOSSA; LYCASTE CRUENTA; NEOCORYNURA; ORCHIDACEAE; PHORIDAE; SCAPHYGLOTTIS IMBRICATA; STELIS (ANGIOSPERM); STELIS (HYMENOPTERAN); TRICHOPILIA;

EID: 38549181807     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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