Mutualisms matter: Pollination rate limits the distribution of oil-secreting orchids

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1531-1538

  Pauw, Anton ^a   Bond, William J ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEE; BIOTIC FACTOR; CLONAL ORGANISM; GUILD; MONOCOTYLEDON; MUTUALISM; PERSISTENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; RANGE EXPANSION; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED SET; SPECIES RICHNESS;

APOIDEA; CORYCIINAE; MELITTIDAE; ORCHIDACEAE; REDIVIVA;

EID: 80053050461     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19417.x     Document Type: Article

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