Floral acoustics: Conspicuous echoes of a dish-shaped leaf attract bat pollinators

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6042, 2011, Pages 631-633

  Simon, Ralph ^a   Holderied, Marc W ^b   Koch, Corinna U ^c   Von Helversen, Otto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; FLORAL TRAIT; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SIGNALING;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BAT; BEHAVIOR; ECHOLOCATION; LEGUME; MARCGRAVIA EVENIA; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PITCH; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; MALE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT NECTAR; POLLINATION; SOUND; THEALES;

APOIDEA; AVES; MARCGRAVIA;

EID: 79960970393     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1204210     Document Type: Article

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