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dc.contributor.authorKitching, RL
dc.contributor.authorBoulter, SL
dc.contributor.authorHowlett, BG
dc.contributor.authorGoodall, K
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:46:27Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:46:27Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-09-15T07:36:33Z
dc.identifier.issn1442-9985
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01733.x
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/18661
dc.description.abstractCanopy crane-based studies have been carried out to quantify the sets of arthropods that visit the flowers of a suite of common species of trees, palms and vines within the Cape Tribulation study area. Those Orders that increase significantly in abundance between the budding and flowering stages of inflorescences are identified, and multivariate and univariate comparisons have been made first, among coflowering plant species and second, at different seasons for the same plant species. The analysis has been repeated for both the profile of higher arthropod taxa in the samples and for the relative abundances of families of Coleoptera: one of the Orders most frequently suggested as critical in the pollination biology of Australian rainforests. In all cases significant differences are identified among species confirming that the visitor profile is a plant species-specific phenomenon. Profiles within plant species at different times also differed. At the ordinal level significant differences in visitor profiles associated with coflowering plants, were observed, variously, in Thysanoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Within the Coleoptera significant differences occurred in relative abundances of Scarabaeidae, Phalacridae, Latridiidae and Curculionidae. Seasonal differences in visitation to Syzygium gustavioides, Normanbya normanbyi and Calamus radicalis, reflected differences in Diptera, Lepidoptera, Homoptera, Thysanoptera, Hymenoptera and Araneida. Within the Coleoptera, the Elateridae and Curculionidae varied significantly between occasions. The various forms of flower/arthropod interaction that may be represented in these results are discussed, as are the implications for pollination.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Inc.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1442-9985
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom29
dc.relation.ispartofpageto42
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustral Ecology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume32
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory, heritage and archaeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode43
dc.titleVisitor assemblages at flowers in a tropical rainforest canopy
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorKitching, Roger L.


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