Variable responses of hawkmoths to nectar-depleted plants in two native Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) populations

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Brandenburg, Anna ^a,b   Bshary, Redouan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cheating; Density; Mutualism; Nectar; Petunia; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOTH; MUTUALISM; NECTAR; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DENSITY;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORCHIDACEAE; PETUNIA; PETUNIA AXILLARIS; SOLANACEAE; SPHINGIDAE;

EID: 79957940321     PISSN: 18728855     EISSN: 18728847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11829-011-9122-y     Document Type: Article

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