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Spraying drones: efficacy of integrating an avian repellent with drone hazing to elicit blackbird flock dispersal and abandonment of sunflower fields

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Multiple management strategies exist to combat bird damage to agriculture. We explored combining two tools, drones as frightening devices and an avian repellent, to assess effectiveness of an integrated method to deter large flocks on complex landscapes. We evaluated the ability of a spraying drone (DJI Agras MG‐1P) deploying Avian Control (i.e. active
Jessica L. Duttenhefner, Timothy J. Greives, Page E. Klug   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fine-tuning the buzz: comparing visitation frequency and pollination effectiveness in plant-pollinator networks. [PDF]

New Phytol
Valadão-Mendes LB, Santana PC, Rech AR, Brito VLG, Maruyama PK.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pollination‐related plant traits under environmental changes: Seasonal and daily mismatches produce temporal constraints

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Pollination is a key tenet of ecosystem sustainability and food security, but it is threatened by climate change. While many studies investigated the response of plant‐pollination traits to temperature, few attempted multifactorial and integrative approaches with ...
Mathieu A. J. Leclerc, Marc Gibernau, Sylvain Pincebourde   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do flowers with specialized morphologies produce more nectar and pollen? [PDF]

Am J Bot
Keasar T, Bodner L.
europepmc   +1 more source

From low to high elevations, flowers adapt traits and phenology to climate, but phenology‐trait relationships weak

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Flowering phenology is central to plant reproductive success and can relate to morphological traits such as size and quality of flowers, but phenology–trait associations of flowers remain unclear.
Mustaqeem Ahmad, Sonia Rathee, Meghna Krishnadas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nectar robbing by the invasive bumblebee <i>Bombus terrestris</i> (Apidae) changes the behavior of native flower visitors of <i>Fuchsia magellanica</i> Lam. (Onagraceae) but not seed set. [PDF]

PeerJ
Valdivia CE, Orellana JI, Murúa M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The influence of nectar production and floral visitors on the female reproductive success of Inga (Fabaceae): a field experiment

, 2015
Oswaldo Cruz-Neto, I. Machado, L. Galetto, A. Lopes   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Functional traits predict changes in floral phenology under climate change in a highly diverse Mediterranean community

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plants are shifting their flowering phenology in response to climate change, but trends differ between species and communities. Functional traits can largely explain how different species respond to climate change by shifting their phenology, and can therefore help ...
Daniel Pareja‐Bonilla, Pedro Luis Ortiz, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato, Montserrat Arista   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of UV reflection in bee- and bird-pollinated flowers. [PDF]

Plant Biol (Stuttg)
Oliveira LC, Brito VLG, Lunau K, Gerten S, Oliveira PEM, Melo LRF, Telles FJ, Bergamo PJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia

TAXON, EarlyView.
Christopher T. Martine
wiley   +1 more source