Flower-visitor networks only partially predict the function of pollen transport by bees

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-86

  Popic, Tony J ^a   Wardle, Glenda M ^a   Davila, Yvonne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Network structure; Null model; Plant pollinator network; Pollen transport; Pollination

Indexed keywords

BEE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOWER VISITING; GRASSLAND; MUTUALISM; NESTEDNESS; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PREDICTION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; SPINIFEX;

EID: 84872821541     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2012.02377.x     Document Type: Article

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