Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

PLANT POLLINATORS AND FUNCTIONING OF ECOSYSTEM

Dr. G. Meerabai

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 Pollinators are important organisms that play a key role in propagation of plants. Within an assemblage their interaction is termed as “heterogeneity”. They are also ecologically important in food web. Pollinators are of in different functional groups such as bees, moths, butterflies, squirrels etc. Their nectar source plants are categorized into different functional groups on the basis of their flower structure. A kind of correlation exists between the flower structure and the type of pollinator. In certain cases the presence of a nectar flower determines the existence of a specific pollinator in that ecosystem. Hence there exists a balancing mechanism between the pollinator and its nectar plant sources in an ecosystem

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Dr.G.Meerabai, PLANT POLLINATORS AND FUNCTIONING OF ECOSYSTEM, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume‾7 | Issue‾8 | August‾2017

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