Floral colour versus phylogeny in structuring subalpine flowering communities

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1696, 2010, Pages 2957-2965

  McEwen, Jamie R ^a   Vamosi, Jana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological character displacement; Floral colour; Phylogenetic community structure; Pollinator competition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLORISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATOR; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RARE SPECIES; SEED PRODUCTION; SPECTRUM; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 77956920368     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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