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Science 16 December 1977:
Vol. 198. no. 4322, pp. 1177 - 1178
DOI: 10.1126/science.198.4322.1177
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Coadapted Competitors: The Flowering Seasons of Hummingbird-Pollinated Plants in a Tropical Forest

F. GARY STILES 1

1 Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, Costa Rica

A system of compensating phenological responses of different species to unusual rainfall conditions may play a major role in maintaining an orderly, staggered sequence of flowering peaks among the hummingbird-pollinated plants of a Costa Rican rain forest. Quantitative phenological studies over several years may be essential to understanding the temporal organization of many tropical communities.

Submitted on May 25, 1977
Revised on September 26, 1977


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