Site-specific features affect pollination success of a gynodioecious understory shrub in a gender-specific mode

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 358-365

  Alonso, Conchita ^a   Herrera, Carlos M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abiotic conditions; Beetle pollination; Canopy cover; Daphne laureola; Distance to the nearest neighbour; Gynodioecy; Hemispherical canopy photographs; Microhabitat; Winter flowering

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CANOPY; GYNODIOECY; HABITAT MOSAIC; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONTANE FOREST; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SHRUB; SITE EFFECT; UNDERSTORY;

COLEOPTERA; DAPHNE; DAPHNE LAUREOLA; HEXAPODA; THYMELAEACEAE;

EID: 54249103151     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-3-3115     Document Type: Article

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