Trends in floral scent chemistry in pollination syndromes: Floral scent composition in hummingbird-pollinated taxa

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-199

  Knudsen, Jette T ^a,d   Tollsten, Lars ^b   Groth, Inga ^a   Bergström, Gunnar ^a   Raguso, Robert A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Head space adsorption; Hermits; Neotropics; Ornithophily; Trochiline

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; FLORAL TRAIT; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; ORNITHOPHILY; POLLINATION;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 6344289397     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2004.00329.x     Document Type: Article

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