Pollinators, pollination efficiency and fruiting success in a wild nutmeg, Myristica dactyloides

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-412

  Sharma, Manju V ^a,b   Shivanna, Kundaranahalli R ^a,b  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

canopy; Coleoptera; dioecy; Diptera; endemic; flower abscission; generalist pollination; Myristicaceae; Thysanoptera; Western Ghats; wet evergreen

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ABSCISSION; BEE; BEETLE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EVERGREEN FOREST; FLOWERING; FLY; FOREST CANOPY; FRUIT SET; GENERALIST; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SAMPLING; SEASONALITY; WILD POPULATION;

INDIA; SRI LANKA; WESTERN GHATS;

APOIDEA; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; HALICTIDAE; HEXAPODA; MYRISTICA DACTYLOIDES; MYRISTICA FRAGRANS; MYRISTICACEAE; PHORIDAE; SYRPHIDAE; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 79959281160     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467411000174     Document Type: Article

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