Relationships between population size and pollen fates in a moth-pollinated orchid

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 282-285

  Johnson, Steven D ^a   Torninger, Erica ^a,b   Ågren, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Pollen transfer efficiency; Pollination; Population ecology; Satyrium; Self pollination

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; FLOWER; FRUIT SET; HERB; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; MOTH; POLLEN; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEED PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DEPRESSION; ECOLOGY; EROSION; FLOWERING; FRUIT SET; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATYRIUM LONGICAUDA; SEED PRODUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; STIGMA; ANIMAL; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

LEPIDOPTERA; SATYRIUM LONGICAUDA;

ANIMALS; FLOWERS; INBREEDING; MOTHS; ORCHIDACEAE; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS;

EID: 65349105354     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0702     Document Type: Article

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