Tracing impacts of partner abundance in facultative pollination mutualisms: from individuals to populations

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1581-1592

  Geib, Jennifer C ^a   Galen, Candace ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine clover; Bombus balteatus; Density dependence; Facultative; Mutualism; Pollination; Pollination niche; Specialization; Trifolium dasyphyllum; Trifolium parryi

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BEE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FITNESS; FLOWER VISITING; GERMINATION; HOST PLANT; LEGUME; MUTUALISM; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLOVER; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEES; COLORADO; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TRIFOLIUM;

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS BALTEATUS; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM DASYPHYLLUM; TRIFOLIUM PARRYI;

EID: 84864186965     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1271.1     Document Type: Article

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