Convergent specialization - the sharing of pollinators by sympatric genera of sexually deceptive orchids

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 826-835

  Phillips, Ryan D ^a,b,c   Xu, Tingbao ^d   Hutchinson, Michael F ^d   Dixon, Kingsley W ^b,c   Peakall, Rod ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Bioclimatic analysis; Evolution; Mimicry; Orchid; Pollination; Reproductive ecology; Sexual deception; Specialization

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FLORAL TRAIT; FRUIT SET; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MIMICRY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SPECIALIZATION; SYMPATRY; WASP;

CALADENIA; DRAKAEA; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 84874854713     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12068     Document Type: Article

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