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Conserving Migratory Pollinators and Nectar Corridors in Western North America

Nine scholarly papers employ the disciplines of comparative zoogeography and conservation biology to describe the importance of migratory pollinators and the "nectar trails" that make plant propagation possible, including such topics as stresses during migration, the role of bats and hummi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nabhan, Gary Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: : University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Colección:Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Studies in Natural History Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Stresses on pollinators during migration : is nectar availability at stopovers the weak link in plant-pollinator conservation? / Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Nectar corridors : migration and the annual cycle of lesser long-nosed bats / Theodore H. Fleming
  • Conservation through research and education : an example of collaborative integral actions for migratory bats / Rodrigo A. Medellín, J. Guillermo Tellez and Joaquín Arroyo
  • Rufous and broad-tailed hummingbirds : pollination, migration, and population biology / William A. Calder
  • Migratory patterns of the rufous hummingbird in western Mexico / Jorge E. Schondube [and others]
  • Hummingbird plants and potential nectar corridors of the rufous hummingbird in Sonora, Mexico / Thomas R. Van Devender [and others]
  • Saguaros and white-winged doves : the natural history of an uneasy partnership / Carlos Martínez Del Rio, Blair O. Wolf and Russell A. Haughey
  • The interchange of migratory monarchs between Mexico and the western United States, and the importance of floral corridors to the fall and spring migrations / Lincoln P. Brower and Robert M. Pyle
  • The monarch butterfly biosphere reserve, Michoacán, Mexico / Roberto Solís Calderón, in collaboration with Blanca Xiomara Mora Alvarez [and others].