Local floral composition and the behaviour of pollinators: Attraction to and foraging within experimental patches

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 652-661

  Lázaro, Amparo ^a   Totland, Ørjan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Approaches to a patch; Foraging behaviour; Local plant density; Local plant diversity; Pollinator guilds; Shifts between species; Visitation within a patch

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FLORISTICS; FLOWER VISITING; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MUSCOIDEA; SALVIA; SYRPHIDAE; TAGETES; TARAXACUM; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE;

EID: 77956407989     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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