Specialization on traits as basis for the niche-breadth of flower visitors and as structuring mechanism of ecological networks

Functional Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 329-341

  Junker, Robert R ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^b   Brehm, Tanja ^c   Binkenstein, Julia ^d   Paulus, Justina ^c   Martin Schaefer, H ^d   Stang, Martina ^e  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Floral filters; Floral resources; Flower colour; Hierarchy of traits; Morphology; n dimensional hypervolume; Niche; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; FLOWER; FLOWER VISITING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NICHE BREADTH; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; SPECIALIZATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 84875609221     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12005     Document Type: Article

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