Soil fungal effects on floral signals, rewards, and aboveground interactions in an alpine pollination web

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1299-1308

  Becklin, Katie M ^a   Gamez, Guadalupe ^a   Uelk, Bryan ^a   Raguso, Robert A ^b   Galen, Candace ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Floral evolution; Fungicide; Mycorrhizae; Nectar larcenists; Polemoniaceae; Polemonium viscosum; Pollination

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANT; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FLORAL TRAIT; FUNGICIDE; FUNGUS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MYCORRHIZA; NATURAL SELECTION; NECTAR; PHENOTYPE; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SEED SET; SIGNALING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIALIZATION; SUGAR; TUNDRA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; GENETIC FITNESS; MYCORRHIZAE; PHENOTYPE; POLLEN; POLLINATION; SEEDS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; POLEMONIACEAE; POLEMONIUM VISCOSUM;

EID: 84858386512     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000450     Document Type: Article

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