Competition drives specialization in pollination systems through costs to male fitness

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 732-743

  Muchhala, Nathan ^a   Brown, Zachary ^b   Armbruster, W Scott ^c,d,e   Potts, Matthew D ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community context; Competition through heterospecific pollen transfer; Generalization; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FITNESS; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SEX ALLOCATION; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; OVULE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVULE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 78649707333     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657049     Document Type: Article

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