Forget-me-not: Complex floral displays, inter-signal interactions, and pollinator cognition

Current Zoology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 215-224

  Leonard, Anne S ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^a   Papaj, Daniel R ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Bee; Context; Flower; Learning; Multimodal signal

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; MYOSOTIS;

EID: 79953268840     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/57.2.215     Document Type: Review

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