Variation in the reproductive performance of the Trollius-Chiastocheta mutualism at the edge of its range in north-east Germany

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 437-447

  Lemke, Tristan ^a   Porembski, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Fitness loss; Obligate mutualism; Pollination; Small populations

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FITNESS; FLY; HERB; HOST PLANT; INBREEDING; MUTUALISM; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; RANGE SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SEED SET;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIPTERA; FITNESS; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RANUNCULACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; GERMANY, EAST; HERBIVORY; LARVA; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RANUNCULACEAE; SEEDS; SYMBIOSIS;

GERMANY;

CHIASTOCHETA; RANUNCULACEAE; TROLLIUS; TROLLIUS EUROPAEUS;

EID: 84878115562     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2500-z     Document Type: Article

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