Predispersal seed herbivores, not pollinators, exert selection on floral traits via female fitness

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1802-1810

  Parachnowitsch, Amy L ^a,b   Caruso, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bumble bees; Cleopmiarus hispidulus; Floral evolution; Flowering phenology; Lobelia siphilitica; Phenotypic selection; Plant insect interactions; Predispersal seed predators

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BEE; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; FLORAL TRAIT; HERBIVORE; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BOMBUS (GENUS); CAMPANULACEAE; HEXAPODA; LOBELIA; LOBELIA SIPHILITICA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; LOBELIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLINATION;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; LOBELIA; POLLINATION; SEEDS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 54049113114     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0555.1     Document Type: Article

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