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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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Wild Floral Visitors Are More Important Than Honeybees as Pollinators of Avocado Crops
Agronomy, 2023 Wild insects provide pollination services in agroecosystems. Avocado is an economically important crop grown in the Chilean Mediterranean climate region and exported worldwide.
J. L. Celis-Diez +5 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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Journal of Insect Conservation, 2023 Acanthus ilicifolius is a spiny semi-woody evergreen shrub which is one of the most dominant species associated with mangrove communities. Although its floral biology is well documented, there are only a few systematic and exhaustive studies of floral ...
T. Chatterjee +5 more
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Insect floral visitors of thermo-Mediterranean shrubland maquis (Ajaccio, Corsica, France). [PDF]
Biodivers Data JThe Mediterranean Region represents a biodiversity hotspot with a high rate of endemism. In its western part, Corsica Island is notable in terms of biodiversity due to its large surface and its large range of habitats from seaside to alpine biotopes.
Maestracci PY, Plume L, Gibernau M.
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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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American-Eurasian journal of botany, 2021 PREMISE Animal pollination is critical to plant reproduction and may cause convergent evolution of pollination syndromes. Pollination syndromes in Castilleja have been distinguished based on floral traits and historical observations of floral visitors ...
Evan T Hilpman, Jeremiah W. Busch
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Assessment of interactions between oil flowers and floral visitors in world biomes
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021 Specialized glands that produce and store floral oil are found in 11 families of flowering plants, with greater representation in Malpighiaceae. Solitary bees use this resource to feed larvae and for cell lining.
Murilo Menck Guimarães +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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