Intra-floral resource partitioning between endemic and invasive flower visitors: Consequences for pollinator effectiveness

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 760-767

  Junker, Robert R ^a   Bleil, Richard ^a   Daehler, Curtis C ^b   Blüthgen, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Apis mellifera; Biological invasions; Competition; Hylaeus; Metrosideros polymorpha; Nectar thieves; Pollen thieves

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIRD; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLOWER VISITING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; NATIVE SPECIES; NECTAR; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POLYMORPHISM; RARE SPECIES; SYMPATRY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; AVES; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYLAEUS; HYMENOPTERA; METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA; MYRTACEAE;

EID: 78349283017     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01237.x     Document Type: Article

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