Ecological and evolutionary aspects of floral nectars in Mediterranean habitats

Nectaries and Nectar

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 343-375

  Petanidou, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

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