Pollination energetics and foraging strategies in a Metrosideros-honeycreeper association
- Author:
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Carpenter, F. Lynn, MacMillen, Richard E.
- Title:
- Pollination energetics and foraging strategies in a Metrosideros-honeycreeper association
- Year:
- 1975
- Pages:
- 16
- Subject:
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Birds Hawaii Island
Drepanididae
Fertilization of plants
Hawaiian honeycreepers
Metrosideros collina
Ohia-lehua
Trees Hawaii Island
- Summary:
- Birds, specifically certain nectar-eating species of Drepanididae, are necessary for proper pollination, outcrossing, and high levels of seed set in Metrosideros collina on the island of Hawaii. In different M.collina blooming seasons, nectar abundance changes resulting fluctuation of seed setting rates therefore affecting the nectar-eating birds. A hierarchy of interspecific aggression seems to be aligned among the three honeycreeper species in order of degree of nectar dependency.
- URL:
- https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/31014
- Collection:
- Monographs