How foraging behaviour and resource partitioning can drive the evolution of flowers and the structure of pollination networks

Open Ecology Journal

Volumn 3, Issue SPEC.ISS.3, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^a   Santamaría, Luis ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Flower diversification; Nectar barriers; Optimal foraging theory; Pollination syndromes; Spatiotemporal heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79960786791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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