Hovering sunbirds in the Old World: Occasional behaviour or evolutionary trend?

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 178-183

  Janecek, Štepán ^a   PatáeOvá, Eliška ^a,b   Bartoš, Michael ^a   Padyšáková, Eliška ^a,b   Spitzer, Lukáš ^a,c   Tropek, Robert ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; NECTARIVORY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SPECIALIST;

AVES; IMPATIENS; NECTARINIA PREUSSI; NICOTIANA GLAUCA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 78751620640     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18612.x     Document Type: Article

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