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No evidence for missed mutualists in an invasive plant with the buzz pollination syndrome

Ecosphere
The missed mutualist hypothesis predicts that the absence of mutualistic partners poses a barrier to introduced species becoming invasive. Yet, some alien plants thrive despite potential dependence on certain pollinators.
Laura C. Lopresti, Daniel Montesinos, Paula Sosenski, Victor Parra‐Tabla, Lori Lach   +4 more
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Evolutionary convergence on hummingbird pollination in Neotropical Costus provides insight into the causes of pollinator shifts. [PDF]

New Phytol, 2022
Summary The evolution of hummingbird pollination is common across angiosperms throughout the Americas, presenting an opportunity to examine convergence in both traits and environments to better understand how complex phenotypes arise. Here we examine independent shifts from bee to hummingbird pollination in the Neotropical spiral gingers (Costus) and ...
Kay KM, Grossenbacher DL.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Phylogenomics reveals the evolution of floral traits associated with pollinators and pollinator-prey conflict within the carnivorous Pinguicula subgenus Temnoceras. [PDF]

Am J Bot
Abstract Premise The carnivorous plant genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) exhibits remarkable floral diversity associated with pollination, particularly in the largest subgenus Temnoceras, which spans Mexico and Central America. Despite this diversity, the relationships between species and the evolution of key floral traits remain unresolved. Here, we
Liu Y, Lin Q, Fleck SJ, Mata-Rosas M, Ibarra-Laclette E, Renner T.   +5 more
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Untangling biodiversity interactions: A meta network on pollination in Earth's most diverse tropical savanna. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We addressed how pollination meta network with vertebrate and invertebrate species is assembled in the world's most diverse savanna and identified potential biogeographical bias within the region. We found a generalization of interactions at the meta network level but a high degree of specialization within the modules, where bees are the module ...
Aguiar LMS, Diniz UM, Bueno-Rocha ID, Filomeno LRA, Aguiar-Machado LS, Gomes PA, Togni PHB.   +6 more
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State of the Population of Gladiolus imbricatus L. in a Molinia Meadow after Extensive Management and Abandonment

International Journal of Ecology, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
The abandonment of seminatural Molinia meadows observed in Central and Eastern Europe during the 20th century started the secondary succession and threatened the state and persistence of populations of numerous meadow species. Considering this, the aims of the presented investigations were to study the abundance and selected traits of individuals of ...
Kinga Kostrakiewicz-Gierałt, Monika Podgórska, Stanisław Kłosowski, Rahul Bhadouria   +3 more
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Melittophily and malacophily in Ipomoea pes-caprae (Convolvulaceae)

TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity, 2013
Ipomoea pes-caprae is a mangrove associate often found along shorelines. It flowers during August–February and is hermaphroditic and an obligate out-crosser due to self-incompatibility. It is both melittophilous and malacophilous. The natural fruit set rate is less than 10% probably due to the wastage of pollen in self-pollination, the ephemeral nature
A.J. Solomon Raju, P. Suvarna Raju, K. Venkata Ramana   +2 more
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Temporal dioecism, melittophily and anemochory of Wendlandia glabrata (Rubiaceae)

TAPROBANICA: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity, 2013
Wendlandia glabrata is a massive bloomer during February–March. Floral characteristics such as diurnal anthesis, white coloured, odorless, tubular flowers with deep seated sucrose-rich nectar conform to psychophily. Nectar is a source of essential and non-essential amino acids for butterflies, inconsistent foragers due to nectar traces in open flowers.
A.J. Solomon Raju, K. Venkata Ramana
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Biologia floral e heterostilia em Vismia guianensis (Aubl.) Choisy (Clusiaceae) Floral biology and heterostyly in Vismia guianensis (Aubl.) Choisy (Clusiaceae)

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 1998
Os estudos da biologia floral e reprodutiva e a caracterização da heterostilia em Vismia guianensis realizaram-se na Reserva Ecológica de Dois Irmãos, Recife, PE, entre novembro/1997 e fevereiro/ 1998. V.
Mary Janice Lima dos Santos, Isabel Cristina Machado   +1 more
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Pollination ecology of Chengam Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea C.F. Gaertn. (Magnoliopsida: Rubiales: Rubiaceae), a non-viviparous evergreen tree species

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2014
Scyphiphora hydrophyllacea C.F. Gaertn. or Chengam is a non-viviparous evergreen tree species. The flowers are bisexual, self-compatible, self-pollinating, temporally dioecious and exhibit a mixed breeding system.
A.J. Solomon Raju, B. Rajesh
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Biologia reprodutiva de Cattleya eldorado, uma espécie de Orchidaceae das campinas amazônicas Reproductive biology of Cattleya eldorado, a species of Orchidaceae from the Amazonian white sand campinas

Acta Amazonica, 2011
As Orchidaceae são muito apreciadas por suas flores exóticas e exuberantes. É a maior família de plantas apresentando mais de 24000 espécies, o que denota uma alta diversidade de formas e adaptações a diferentes ambientes, como também para atração ...
Eliana Fernandez Storti, Pedro Ivo Soares Braga, Atilio Storti Filho   +2 more
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