The nutritional significance of a winter-flowering succulent for opportunistic avian nectarivores

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-121

  Symes, Craig T ^a,b   Mckechnie, Andrew E ^a,b   Nicolson, Susan W ^a   Woodborne, Stephan M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Aloe marlothii; Bulbul; Isotope routing; Stable isotope; Succulent; Sunbird

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMBUSTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERING; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRASS; INSECT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METABOLISM; MONOCOTYLEDON; NECTAR; NECTARIVORY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PASSERINE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SAVANNA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUGAR; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WINTER;

GAUTENG; SOUTH AFRICA; SUIKERBOSRAND NATURE RESERVE;

ALOE; ALOE MARLOTHII; AVES; CRASSULACEAE; HEXAPODA; POACEAE; PYCNONOTUS BRUNNEUS; PYCNONOTUS NIGRICANS; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS;

EID: 78650107144     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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