The importance of flower visitors not predicted by floral syndromes
South African Journal of Botany, 2009 AbstractFlower visitors that do not fit a perceived floral syndrome are often over-looked and deemed unimportant. In Tritoniopsis revoluta, an irid with a very long corolla tube conforming to the long proboscid fly pollination syndrome, we determine visitation rates of bees and long proboscid flies, as well as ascertain whether bees could be important ...
Benny Borremans +2 more
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Floral scent chemodiversity is associated with high floral visitor but low bacterial richness on flowers. [PDF]
New PhytolSummary Floral scents are complex blends of volatile compounds, yet the influence of floral scent chemodiversity, the richness, evenness, and functional disparity of phytochemical compounds in shaping interactions with flower visitors and microbes remains largely ...
Hanusch M +4 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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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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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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Pollination of Adenocalymma bracteatum (Bignoniaceae): floral biology and visitors [PDF]
Neotropical Entomology, 2010 Adenocalymma bracteatum is a shrub of dense foliage and yellow flowers, easily found on grasslands areas in Central Brazil. The aim of this study was to determine the reproductive biology and the flower visitors of A. bracteatum in a pasture area nearby Ivinhema city, MS (Brazil). The flowering peak occurs in winter.
Almeida-Soares, Stela +3 more
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Floral biology of Stachytarpheta maximiliani Scham. (Verbenaceae) and its floral visitors [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2006 This study describes the reproductive system of Stachytarpheta maximiliani (Verbenaceae), including its floral biology, nectar and pollen availability and insect foraging patterns, identifying whose species act as pollinators. It was carried out in a Brazilian Atlantic rain forest site.
Barbola, Ivana de Freitas +3 more
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