The influence of climatic seasonality on the diversity of different tropical pollinator groups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Abrahamczyk, Stefan ^a   Kluge, Jürgen ^a,b   Gareca, Yuvinka ^c   Reichle, Steffen ^d   Kessler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny   (Bolivia)

^d THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BEE; BIRD; BOLIVIA; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMMINGBIRD; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TROPICS; WASP; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; SEASON; TROPIC CLIMATE;

APOCRITA; PAPILIONOIDEA; TROCHILIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; CLIMATE; POLLEN; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 80355143422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027115     Document Type: Article

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