Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

Annals of Botany

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Forrest, Jessica R K ^a,b   Ogilvie, Jane E ^a,b   Gorischek, Alex M ^b,c   Thomson, James D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boraginaceae; floral morphology; frost; herkogamy; local adaptation; Mertensia fusiformis Greene; Osmia; phenology; pollination; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; temperature

Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DICOTYLEDON; FLOWER VISITING; FLOWERING; FROST; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PATCHINESS; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOLOGY; POLLINATOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED SET; SNOWPACK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BORAGINACEAE; COLD; FEMALE; FLOWER; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEES; BORAGINACEAE; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLORADO; FEMALE; FLOWERS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEASONS;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BORAGINACEAE; MERTENSIA OBLONGIFOLIA; OSMIA;

EID: 79959708088     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr093     Document Type: Article

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