The assembly of plants used as nectar sources by hummingbirds in a Cerrado area of Central Brazil

Plant Systematics and Evolution

Volumn 299, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1119-1133

  Araújo, Francielle P ^a   Sazima, Marlies ^b   Oliveira, Paulo Eugênio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Floral morphology; Flowering phenology; Hummingbird visitation; Neotropical savanna; Ornithophily; Plant community

Indexed keywords

AVES; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84878378280     PISSN: 03782697     EISSN: 16156110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00606-013-0783-0     Document Type: Article

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