Insects, birds and lizards as pollinators of the largest-flowered Scrophularia of Europe and Macaronesia

Annals of Botany

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 153-167

  Ortega Olivencia, Ana ^a   Rodríguez Riaño, Tomás ^a   Pérez Bote, José L ^a   López, Josefa ^a   Mayo, Carlos ^a   Valtueña, Francisco J ^a   Navarro Pérez, Marisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bird pollination; Europe; Gallotia stehlini; insect pollination; largest flowered Scrophularia; lizard pollination; Macaronesia; Mediterranean region; ornithophily; Phylloscopus; Sylvia

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HERB; INSECT; JUVENILE; LIZARD; MORPHOTYPE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; FLOWER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; INSECT; LIZARD; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SCROPHULARIACEAE; WASP;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; FLOWERS; INSECTS; LIZARDS; POLLINATION; SCROPHULARIA; WASPS;

EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOCRITA; APOIDEA; AVES; BOMBUS (GENUS); GALLOTIA STEHLINI; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS CANARIENSIS; SCROPHULARIA; SQUAMATA; SYLVIA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA;

EID: 84555188915     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcr255     Document Type: Article

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