Nectar preferences of specialist and occasional avian nectarivores, and their role in the evolution of floral traits.
Our understanding of bird pollination systems has changed dramatically in the last few years. A long-standing paradigm was that hummingbirds and passerine birds select for different nectar properties in flowers (phylogenetic hypothesis). However, specialist passerines, such as sunbirds, have simi...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10779 |