Relative abundance of an invasive alien plant affects native pollination processes

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 469-479

  Dietzsch, Anke Christiane ^a   Stanley, Dara Anne ^a   Stout, Jane Catherine ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Plant diversity; Pollen deposition; Pollinator visitation; Reproductive output; Rhododendron ponticum

Indexed keywords

DIGITALIS;

DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FITNESS; FLOWER VISITING; FLOWERING; FRUIT SET; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; POLLEN; POLLINATION; RANGE EXPANSION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED SET; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; FLY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; IRELAND; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; RHODODENDRON;

ANIMALS; BEES; DIGITALIS; DIPTERA; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; IRELAND; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; RHODODENDRON;

IRELAND;

DIGITALIS PURPUREA; HEXAPODA; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PONTICUM;

EID: 80052651378     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1987-z     Document Type: Article

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