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Artificial flowers as a tool for investigating multimodal flower choice in wild insects

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Flowers come in a variety of colours, shapes, sizes and odours. Flowers also differ in the quality and quantity of nutritional reward they provide to entice potential pollinators to visit. Given this diversity, generalist flower‐visiting insects face the
Kathryn M. Chapman, Freya J. Richardson, Caitlyn Y. Forster, Eliza J. T. Middleton, Thomas E. White, Paul F. Burke, Tanya Latty   +6 more
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Nectaries and reproductive biology of croton sarcopetalus (euphorbiaceae) [PDF]

, 2001
Flower morphology, nectary structure, nectar chemical composition, breeding system, floral visitors and pollination were analysed in Croton sarcopetalus, a diclinous-monoecious shrub from Argentina.
Bernardello, Gabriel Luis Mario, Freitas, Leandro, Galetto, Leonardo, Paoli, Adelita   +3 more
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Diversity and pollination value of insects visiting the flowers of a rare buckwheat (Eriogonum pelinophilum: Polygonaceae) in disturbed and "natural" areas

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2011
We compared flower-visitors of the endangered plant Eriogonum pelinophilum, at relatively undisturbed and highly disturbed sites. We found no difference between sites in flower visitation rate or species richness of flower-visitors; species diversity of ...
V. J. Tepedino, W. R. Bowlin, T. L. Griswold   +2 more
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Self-pollination by sliding pollen in Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) [PDF]

, 2005
Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) forms dense populations on steep cliffs in shady, humid monsoon forests in south China. It produces few consecutively opening bright yellow flowers that are 3 cm long and oriented parallel to the ground.
Chen, Zhongyi, Renner, Susanne S., Wang, Yingqiang, Zhang, Dianxiang   +3 more
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Insect Visitors of Specialty Cut Flowers in High Tunnels

Journal of Economic Entomology, 2022
Abstract Various strategies incorporate floral resources into agricultural landscapes to support beneficial insects. Specialty cut flower production offers a rarely explored approach to offer floral resources while yielding a marketable product for growers. We characterized insect visitation to six species of specialty cut flowers.
Samantha R Nobes, Judith S Herreid, Karen L Panter, Randa Jabbour   +3 more
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Overlooked flower-visiting Orthoptera in Southeast Asia [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2017
The study of insect–plant interactions such as flower visitors, pollinators, and florivores, are important for understanding the natural world. However, not all flower-visiting insects are equally well known, especially in the biodiverse Southeast Asian ...
Ming Kai Tan, Taksin Artchwakom, Rodzay Abdul Wahab, Chow-Yang Lee, Daicus M. Belabut, Hugh Tiang Wah Tan   +5 more
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Temporal variation in flower-visiting insects of Calotropis gigantea in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka

Ruhuna Journal of Science, 2022
Calotropis gigantea (Giant milkweed) is a medicinal plant native to a few Asian countries including Sri Lanka. However, the plant is considered invasive in countries such as Australia, the USA and Brazil.
W.P.S.N. Wijeweera, M.P.K.S.K. de Silva, K. Dhileepan, K.A.D.W. Senaratne   +3 more
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The restoration of ecological interactions: plant-pollinator networks on ancient and restored heathlands [PDF]

, 2008
1. Attempts to restore damaged ecosystems usually emphasize structural aspects of biodiversity, such as species richness and abundance. An alternative is to emphasize functional aspects, such as patterns of interaction between species.
Anonymous, Barabási, Bascompte, Buzna, Cairns, Dicks, Dobson, Dunne, Ehrenfeld, Ehrenfeld, Fortuna, Forup, Gathmann, Gibson, Gilbert, Janzen, Jordano, Jordano, Jordano, Jordano, Kearns, Kearns, Kearns, Lundgren, Memmott, Memmott, Memmott, Montalvo, Nabhan, Palmer, Potts, Rose, Steffan-Dewenter, Steffan-Dewenter, Tanizawa, Thomas, Tscharntke, Usher, Vázquez, Vázquez, Waser, Webb, Webb, Westerkamp, White, Williams, Young   +46 more
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Experimental evidence for predominant nocturnal pollination despite more frequent diurnal visitation in Abronia umbellata (Nyctaginaceae)

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2018
Different suites of floral traits are associated with historical selection by particular functional groups of pollinators, but contemporary floral phenotypes are not necessarily good predictors of a plant’s effective pollinators.
Laura A. D. Doubleday, Chris G. Eckert
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The importance of small natural features in forests—How the overgrowth of forest gaps affects indigenous flower supply and flower‐visiting insects and seed sets of six Campanula species

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The abandonment of historical land‐use forms within forests, such as grazing or coppicing, and atmospheric nitrogen deposition, has led to an increasing overgrowth of forest gaps and canopy closure in forest ecosystems of Central Europe.
Ralf Braun‐Reichert, Sven Rubanschi, Peter Poschlod   +2 more
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