Competition versus facilitation: Conspecific effects on pollinator visitation and seed set in the iris Lapeirousia oreogena

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 545-550

  Johnson, Steven D ^a   Hollens, Hilke ^b   Kuhlmann, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; FACILITATION; FECUNDITY; FLOWER VISITING; FLY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MONOCOTYLEDON; PATCH SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED SET; SPECIALIZATION;

LAPEIROUSIA;

EID: 84858337881     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19516.x     Document Type: Article

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