Florivory and Pollination Intersection: Changes in Floral Trait Expression Do Not Discourage Hummingbird Pollination [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Many flowers are fed on by florivores, but we know little about if and how feeding on flowers affects their visual and chemical advertisement and nectar resource, which could disrupt pollination.
Priscila Tunes +2 more
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Experimental Florivory Influences Reproductive Success in the Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) [PDF]
PlantsFlorivory is the consumption or damage of flowers by herbivorous animals. It can directly affect plant fitness by damaging reproductive organs or indirectly by negatively influencing flower attractiveness to pollinators.
Pavol Prokop +2 more
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Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 Florivory (flower consumption) occurs worldwide in modern angiosperms, associated with pollen and nectar consumption. However, florivory remains unrecorded from fossil flowers since their Early Cretaceous appearance. We test hypotheses that earliest angiosperms were pollinated by a diverse insect fauna by evaluating 7858 plants from eight localities of
Lifang Xiao +2 more
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Florivory by the occupants of phytotelmata in flower parts can decrease host plant fecundity [PDF]
Environmental Epigenetics, 2021 Abstract Some types of plant accumulate liquid in their inflorescences creating phytotelmata. These environments protect the flowers against florivory, although they may be colonized by aquatic or semi-aquatic florivorous insect larvae, whose effects on the fitness of the plants remain unclear.
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Vertebrate florivory of vascular epiphytes: the case of a bromeliad [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2018 The avoidance of vertebrate herbivory is thought to be one of the possible drivers for the evolution of epiphytism. Scarce literature suggests that epiphyte herbivory is mainly related to insect attack on reproductive structures.
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Florivory shapes both leaf and floral interactions [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2016 Florivory, or the consumption of flowers, is a ubiquitous interaction that can reduce plant reproduction directly by damaging reproductive tissues and indirectly by deterring pollinators.
Nicole L. Soper Gorden, Lynn S. Adler
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Flower Production, Headspace Volatiles, Pollen Nutrients, and Florivory in Tanacetum vulgare Chemotypes [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Floral volatiles and reward traits are major drivers for the behavior of mutualistic as well as antagonistic flower visitors, i.e., pollinators and florivores.
Elisabeth J. Eilers +5 more
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Florivory Modulates the Seed Number-Seed Weight Relationship in Halenia elliptica (Gentianaceae) [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2015 Generally, plant reproductive success might be affected negatively by florivory, and the effects may vary depending on the timing and intensity of florivory.
Linlin Wang, Lihua Meng, Jian Luo
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Florivory defence: are phenolic compounds distributed non-randomly within perianths? [PDF]
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2020 AbstractPlants might allocate chemical defences unequally within attractive units of flowers including petals, sepals, and bracts because of variations in the probability of florivory. Based on optimal defence theory, which predicts that plants allocate higher chemical defences to tissues with higher probabilities of herbivore attack, we predicted that
Michio Oguro +2 more
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Flowers in the cities: effects of spatial distance on incidence and intensity of florivory by insects [PDF]
Acta Botânica BrasílicaSpatio-temporal variation in the quantity and quality of resources available to insects influence the strength and direction of interactions with plants, ultimately affecting the preference of insects and also plant performance. Florivory encompasses the
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