Food selection by avian floral visitors: An important aspect of plant-flower visitor interactions in West Africa

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 355-367

  Janeček, Štěpán ^a   Riegert, Jan ^b   Sedláček, Ondřej ^c   Bartoš, Michael ^a,b   Hořák, David ^c   Reif, Jiří ^c,d   Padyšáková, Eliška ^a,b   Fainová, Drahomíra ^b   Antczak, Marcin ^e   Pešata, Michal ^a   Mikeš, Václav ^b   Patáčová, Eliška ^a   Altman, Jan ^a,b   Kantorová, Jana ^a   Hrázský, Záboj ^a,b   Brom, Jakub ^b   Doležal, Jiří ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Diet composition; Food selectivity; Pollination; Specialization; Sunbird

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADAPTATION; DIET; FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; FOOD SELECTION; MORPHOLOGY; NECTAR; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; SPECIALIZATION;

CAMEROON;

AVES; HYPOESTES ARISTATA; NECTARINIA PREUSSI;

EID: 84866328860     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01943.x     Document Type: Article

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