Floral scents repel facultative flower visitors, but attract obligate ones [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2010 Biological mutualisms rely on communication between partners, but also require protective measures against exploitation. Animal-pollinated flowers need to attract pollinators but also to avoid conflicts with antagonistic consumers. The view of flower visitors as mutualistic and antagonistic agents considers primarily the plants' interest.
Nico Bluthgen, Robert R Junker
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Diversity of floral visitors to sympatric Lithophragma species differing in floral morphology [PDF]
Oecologia, 2009 Most coevolving relationships between pairs of species are embedded in a broader multispecific interaction network. The mutualistic interaction between Lithophragma parviflorum (Saxifragaceae) and its pollinating floral parasite Greya politella (Lepidoptera, Prodoxidae) occurs in some communities as a pairwise set apart from most other interactions in ...
Cuautle, Mariana, Thompson, John N.
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Ecological IndicatorsPrecise monitoring of insect floral visitors and their relationship with floral resources throughout the flowering season provides baseline information to help us understand long-term changes in plant-pollinator interactions and improve pollinator ...
Javiera Chinga
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Floral biology, pollination requirements and behavior of floral visitors in two species of pitaya
Revista Ciência Agronômica, 2019 The present work aimed to study floral biology, pollination requirements and the behavior of floral visitors in two species of pitaya, Hylocereus undatus and H. polyrhizus, in Northeastern Brazil.
João Paulo de Oliveira Muniz +3 more
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Nocturnal and diurnal pollination in Copaifera coriacea, a dominant species in sand dunes of the Middle São Francisco River Basin, Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background and aims – Copaifera coriacea, a species in the resin-producing clade Detarioideae (Leguminosae), is an endemic and abundant species found in sand dunes in Brazilian Caatinga domain vegetation – a Quaternary paleodesert. We investigated floral
Isys Mascarenhas Souza +3 more
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Floral and reproductive biology of Matisia cordata (fam: malvaceae) [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura, 2021 In Colombia there is a large diversity of promising fruit trees, one of them is Matisia cordata. Sapoti species is appreciated by the consumers, although it is produced in small volumes by traditional productors.
Mariluz Aguilar Castro +3 more
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Plant-pollinator interaction in a peatland ecosystem in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Revista Espinhaço, 2023 The Espinhaço Mountain Range is an important complex of mountains and plateaus within the Brazilian Cerrado. Within this area we can found peatlands ecosystem, which are important carbon reservoirs and home of a variety of plants and their floral ...
Hannah Beyer +4 more
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Mutualist- and antagonist-mediated selection contribute to trait diversification of flowers [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Flowers are generally short-lived, and they all face a multidimensional challenge because they have to attract mutualists, compel them to vector pollen with minimal investment in rewards, and repel floral enemies during this short time window.
Luyao Huang +6 more
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Patterns of floral morphology in relation to climate and floral visitors [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2019 AbstractBackground and AimsThe diversity of floral morphology among plant species has long captured the interest of biologists and led to the development of a number of explanatory theories. Floral morphology varies substantially within species, and the mechanisms maintaining this diversity are diverse.
Urs K Weber +2 more
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Flowering and pollination ecology of Cleistocactus baumannii (Cactaceae) in the Brazilian Chaco: pollinator dependence and floral larceny [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2020 Cleistocactus baumannii is the only ornithophilous cactus species in the Brazilian Chaco. In addition, this species of Cactaceae invests heavily in flowering in the ecoregion.
Bruno Henrique dos Santos Ferreira +4 more
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