Hyper-specialization for long-billed bird pollination in a guild of South African plants: the Malachite Sunbird pollination syndrome

South African Journal of Botany

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 699-706

  Geerts, S ^a   Pauw, A ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Floral tube length; Long billed bird pollination; Malachite Sunbird; Nectar robbing; Nectar sugar; Nectarinia famosa

Indexed keywords

FLOWER VISITING; GUILD; HERBARIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NECTARIVORY; PASSERINE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; ROBBING; SPECIALIZATION; SUGAR;

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

AVES; NECTARINIA CHALYBEA; NECTARINIA FAMOSA;

EID: 70350566802     PISSN: 02546299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sajb.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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