The importance of bees as pollinators in the short corolla bromeliad Aechmea caudata in southern Brazil

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 206, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 749-756

  Kamke, Rafael ^a   Schmid, Simone ^a,b   Zillikens, Anne ^a,b   Lopes, Benedito Cortês ^a   Steiner, Josefina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic forest; Bombus morio; Bromeliaceae; Mixed pollination; Pollination effectiveness; Thalurania glaucopis

Indexed keywords

BEE; DATA SET; FLOWER VISITING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HERB; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SEED; SELF INCOMPATIBILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; VERTEBRATE;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

AECHMEA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS MORIO; BROMELIACEAE; CAUDATA; HEXAPODA; THALURANIA GLAUCOPIS; TROCHILIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957790280     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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