Solitary invasive orchid bee outperforms co-occurring native bees to promote fruit set of an invasive Solanum

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 515-525

  Liu, Hong ^a,c,d   Pemberton, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Tropical Plant Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

Buzz pollination; Euglossa viridissima; Invasive mutualism; Pollen limitation; Solanum torvum

Indexed keywords

BEE; DICOTYLEDON; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; WEED;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SOLANUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEES; POLLINATION; SOLANUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

APOIDEA; EUGLOSSA; EUGLOSSINI; HALICTIDAE; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TORVUM; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 60449090701     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1232-6     Document Type: Article

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