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The distribution of standing crop of nectar: what does it really tell us?

Authors: Pleasants, J.; Zimmerman, M.
Year: 1983
Journal: Oecologia, Vol. 57, pp. 412-414
Publisher: UNKNOWN
DOI: 10.1007/bf00377188
Keywords: DISTRIBUTION, MODELING, NECTAR, NECTAR PRODUCTION, POLLINATION BIOLOGY, RESOURCE PATCHINESS, RMBL, VARIABILITY

Abstract

Brink (1982) characterizes the distribution of standing crop of nectar for Delphinium nelsonii as bonanzablank, based on comparison with a Poisson, but this work disagrees with the use of the Poisson and the resulting conclusions.

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