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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Water stress and increasing temperatures are two main constraints faced by plants in the context of climate change. These constraints affect plant physiology and morphology, including phenology, floral traits, and nectar rewards, thus altering plant ...
Charlotte Descamps +4 more
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The iconic cactus of the Caatinga dry forest, Cereus jamacaru (Cactaceae) has high sphingophily specialization and pollinator dependence [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2023 Cereus jamacaru is a cactus distributed in Northeastern Brazil, with high symbolic value to this region. However, the interaction, behavior and the role of pollinators remains poorly understood.
SINZINANDO ALBUQUERQUE-LIMA +6 more
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Artificial pollen dispensing flowers and feeders for bee behaviour experiments
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2016 The study of foraging behaviour in plant-pollinator mutualisms has benefitted from the use of artificial flowers to manipulate floral display traits and the delivery of floral rewards.
Avery Leigh Russell, Daniel R Papaj
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Geometric morphometrics of functionally distinct floral organs in Iris pumila: Analyzing patterns of symmetric and asymmetric shape variations [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2017 The Iris flower is a complex morphological structure composed of two trimerous whorls of functionally distinct petaloid organs (the falls and the standards), one whorl of the stamens and one tricarpellary gynoecium.
Radović Sanja +5 more
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Floral Temperature and Optimal Foraging: Is Heat a Feasible Floral Reward for Pollinators?
PLoS ONE, 2008 As well as nutritional rewards, some plants also reward ectothermic pollinators with warmth. Bumble bees have some control over their temperature, but have been shown to forage at warmer flowers when given a choice, suggesting that there is some advantage to them of foraging at warm flowers (such as reducing the energy required to raise their body to ...
Rands, SA, Whitney, HM
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Insects, 2023 The Neotropical orchid bee Euglossa dilemma was found to be naturalized in southern Florida in 2003, and, by 2022, it had colonized the southern half of Florida.
Robert W. Pemberton
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The co-optimization of floral display and nectar reward
Journal of Biosciences, 2009 In most insect-pollinated flowers, pollinators cannot detect the presence of nectar without entering the flower. Therefore, flowers may cheat by not producing nectar and may still get pollinated. Earlier studies supported this 'cheater flower' hypothesis and suggested that the cost saving by cheater flowers could be the most predominant selective force
Prajakta V, Belsare +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Most pollinators visit flowers in the search of nectar rewards. However, as the floral nectar can often not be directly detected by pollinators, many flower visitors use secondary metabolites such as odor- or taste-proxies to anticipate nectar quantity ...
Alexander Haverkamp +5 more
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Genotype and environment effects on sunflower nectar and their relationships to crop pollination
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Whether caused by genotype (G) or environment (E), floral trait variation has consequences for plants and their pollinators. Cultivated sunflower is a model system to explore floral trait variation; though sunflowers are bred to self-pollinate, benefits ...
Jarrad Prasifka +2 more
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Floral Rewards: Alternatives to Pollen and Nectar
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1981 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) In angiospermsselectionhas led to the utilizationof numeroussubstancesotherthanpollenand nectar that help to insure repeatedvisitation by pollinatinganimals. Here, we group the various substancesinto nonnutritiveand nutritiverewardsand discuss withineach groupthe specifickinds that occur.
Simpson, Beryl Brintnall, Neff, John L
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