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Male Visitors May Decrease Modularity in Flower–Visitor Networks [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 An ecological community network generally has a clustering structure formed by evolutionary and ecological processes. Because females and males of a single visitor species often differ in their evolutionary and ecological relationship with flowering ...
Shigeki Kishi, Takehiko Kakutani
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The conservation of urban flower visitors Down Under
Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 The majority of the human population now lives in urban environments and that proportion is forecast to increase dramatically by 2050. As urbanization increases, the urban environment will increasingly play a role in biodiversity conservation.
Jay M. Iwasaki, Katja Hogendoorn
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Oceanic Island Bats as Flower visitors and pollinators
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Oceanic islands are relatively poor in insects compared to mainland areas. Therefore, insect-eating island birds and lizards may include other food sources into their diet, e.g. nectar and pollen.
Alfredo Valido, Jens M Olesen
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Flower visitor insects display an interspecific dominance hierarchy on flowers
Ecology, 2023 A few minutes of observation of flowers are sufficient to notice that some flower-visiting insects threaten, harass, or attack individuals from other species. Flies dive-bomb butterflies, and wild bees of different species wrestle one another. One of us (MR-B) has observed this phenomenon repeatedly over the course of at least 20 years in a garden in ...
Thomas, Renaud, Meredith, Root-Bernstein
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Identifying Cocoa Flower Visitors: A Deep Learning Dataset. [PDF]
Sci DataCocoa is a multi-billion-dollar industry but research on improving yields through pollination remains limited. New embedded hardware and AI-based data analysis is advancing information on cocoa flower visitors, their identity and implications for yields.
Xu W +5 more
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Journal of Plant Interactions, 2020 Most flowering plants are visited by various pollinator insects. To understand floral specialization for pollinators, the relative importance of different flower visitors to the focal plant species should be revealed.
Mitsuru Hattori +2 more
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EDITOR'S CHOICE: REVIEW: Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding the relationships between trait diversity, species diversity and ecosystem functioning is essential for sustainable management. For functions comprising two trophic levels, trait matching between interacting partners should also drive ...
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Insects, 2021 A single plant might be visited by many flower visitors but not all might act as pollinators. Legitimate pollinators might also differ considerably in their efficiency, limiting pollination success. Unsuitable climatic conditions such as rain also affect
Hortensia Cabrera Reyes +2 more
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A Matter of Contrast: Yellow Flower Colour Constrains Style Length in Crocus species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Most flowers display distinct colour patterns comprising two different areas. The peripheral large-area component of floral colour patterns attracts flower visitors from some distance and the central small-area component guides flower visitors towards ...
Klaus Lunau +3 more
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Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 AbstractLand‐use intensification and resulting habitat loss are put forward as the main causes of flower visitor decline. However, the impact of urbanization, the prime driver of land‐use intensification in Europe, is poorly studied. In particular, our understanding of whether and how it affects the composition and functioning of flower visitor ...
Deguines, Nicolas +3 more
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