Empty flowers as a pollination-enhancement strategy

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1245-1262

  Bailey, Susan F ^a   Hargreaves, Anna L ^a   Hechtenthal, Sarah D ^a   Laird, Robert A ^a   Latty, Tanya M ^a   Reid, Tyler G ^a   Teucher, Andrew C ^a   Tindall, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross pollination; Geitonogamy; Inbreeding depression; Male function; Nectar; Nectarless flowers; Outcrossing; Reward; Self pollination

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949152712     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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