Effects of habitat fragmentation on nectar composition in the butterfly pollinated orchid species Gymnadenia Conopsea. KU Leuven
Recent comprehensive meta-analyses have demonstrated that plant traits such as breeding system and seed bank persistence mediate the response of a species to anthropogenic habitat fragmentation. In turn, some evidence has recently become available that habitat fragmentation may also exert selective forces on the plant traits themselves. One such a trait is nectar chemical composition. Nectar plays a crucial role in the interactions between ...