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Ants on flowers: Protective ants impose a low but variable cost to pollination, moderated by location of extrafloral nectaries and type of flower visitor

Journal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 8, Page 2187-2198, August 2025.
Individuals who engage in multiple mutualisms often have to pay indirect costs because of the interference of one mutualism on another. We found that protective ants had a low but variable impact on pollination, especially on the flower visitation by bees and when EFNs are close to inflorescences.
Amanda Vieira da Silva, Anselmo Nogueira, Judith L. Bronstein, Pedro J. Rey, Laura Carolina Leal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the success of a swindle: pollination by deception in orchids [PDF]

, 2018
A standing enigma in pollination ecology is the evolution of pollinator attraction without offering reward in about one third of all orchid species. Here I review concepts of pollination by deception, and in particular recent findings in the pollination ...
Schiestl, Florian
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Rocksitter Flies (Lauxaniidae: Cestrotus) are Key‐Pollinators of Ceropegia pulchellior—A Threatened and Localised South African Endemic With Foetid‐Scented Flowers

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 6, Page 888-900, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Short‐tongued saprophilous flies are a diverse but under‐appreciated group of pollinators, which are particularly important for flowers in the subtribe Stapeliinae (Apocynaceae‐Asclepiadoideae‐Ceropegieae). This clade of plants is characterised by repeated shifts between tubular kettle‐trap and open non‐trap flowers and chemical mimicry (of ...
Annemarie Heiduk, Stephen Gaimari, Andrew Whittington, Steven D. Johnson, Adam Shuttleworth   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecologia da polinização de Raphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer (Lamiaceae) em Petrolina, PE, Brasil Pollination ecology of Raphiodon echinus (Nees & Mart.) Schauer (Lamiaceae) in Petrolina, Pernambuco State, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2007
Raphiodon echinus é uma espécie de hábito rasteiro, que ocorre espontaneamente em áreas de caatinga. No presente trabalho foram observados a biologia reprodutiva desta espécie com o objetivo de contribuir com informações sobre sua ecologia da polinização.
Carla Tatiana de Vasconcelos Dias, Lúcia Helena Piedade Kiill   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genetic structure of Bertholletia excelsa populations from the Amazon at different spatial scales. [PDF]

, 2017
Population genetic structure and genetic diversity levels are important issues to understand population dynamics and to guide forest management plans.
AZEVEDO, V. C. R., MARTINS, K., SOLFERINI, V. N., SUJII, P. S., WADT, L. H. de O.   +4 more
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Butterflies, bumblebees and hoverflies are equally effective pollinators of Knautia arvensis (Caprifoliaceae), a generalist plant species with compound inflorescences

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 5, Page 685-696, June 2025.
Abstract Plant‐pollinator interactions exist along a continuum from complete specialisation to highly generalised, that may vary in time and space. A long‐held assumption is that large bees are usually the most effective pollinators of generalist plants.
Jeff Ollerton, Emma Coulthard, Sam Tarrant, James Woolford, Leonardo Ré Jorge, André Rodrigo Rech   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time of flowering and fertilisation of quince varieties

International Journal of Horticultural Science, 1999
Literature dealing with flowering and fertilisation of quince is scarce. Most controversial and scanty are informations on observations of self- and cross-pollination.
T. Szabó, J. Nyéki, M. Soltész, Z. Szabó, T. Tóth   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The spatial distribution of a hummingbird‐pollinated plant is not strongly influenced by hummingbird abundance

American Journal of Botany, Volume 112, Issue 5, May 2025.
Abstract Premise Many angiosperms have evolved specialized systems that promote pollination by specific taxa. Therefore, plant distributions may be limited by the local abundance of their specialist pollinators. In eastern North America, Lobelia cardinalis is thought to be pollinated solely by Archilochus colubris, the only hummingbird species found in
Matthew L. Coffey, Andrew M. Simons
wiley   +1 more source

Pump mechanism, secondary pollen presentation, psychophily and anemochory in Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. (Asteraceae)

Journal of BioScience and Biotechnology, 2017
Emilia sonchifolia flowers profusely during August-November. The plant produces capitulum inflorescence with only disc florets presenting nectar and pollen as rewards.
Mallikarjuna Rao Medabalimi, Jacob Solomon Raju Aluri, Venkata Ramana Kunuku   +2 more
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Pollination Requirements and the Foraging Behavior of Potential Pollinators of Cultivated Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl.) Trees in Central Amazon Rainforest

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012
This study was carried out with cultivated Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl., Lecythidaceae) in the Central Amazon rainforest, Brazil, aiming to learn about its pollination requirements, to know the floral visitors of Brazil nut flowers, to ...
M. C. Cavalcante, F. F. Oliveira, M. M. Maués, B. M. Freitas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source