Pollination patterns and plant breeding systems in the Galápagos: A review

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1489-1501

  Chamorro, Susana ^a,b   Heleno, Ruben ^a,b,c   Olesen, Jens M ^d   McMullen, Conley K ^e   Traveset, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

flower visitation; Gal pagos; mutualistic interactions; oceanic islands; plant breeding systems; plant animal interactions; pollination networks

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; AUTOGAMY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DATABASE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLOWER VISITING; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITERATURE REVIEW; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIRD; BREEDING; DIPTERA; ECOLOGY; ECUADOR; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; HYMENOPTERA; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LEPIDOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; REPTILE; REVIEW;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; BREEDING; DIPTERA; ECOLOGY; ECUADOR; FLOWERS; HYMENOPTERA; ISLANDS; LEPIDOPTERA; POLLINATION; REPTILES;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; AVES; DIPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SQUAMATA; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 84869174659     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs132     Document Type: Review

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