Flora of Ferruginous Outcrops Under Climate Change: A Study in the Cangas of Carajás (Eastern Amazon) [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Climate change has impacted biodiversity, affecting species and altering their geographical distribution. Besides understanding the impact in the species, it has been advocated that answering if different traits will be differently impacted could allow ...
Tereza Cristina Giannini +15 more
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Impact of Seasonal Atmospheric Factors and Photoperiod on Floral Biology, Plant–Pollinator Interactions, and Plant Reproduction on Turnera ulmifolia L. (Passifloraceae) [PDF]
BiologyReproductive traits and plant–pollinator interactions largely depend on seasonal weather conditions, which are species-specific. Turnera ulmifolia is an ornamental plant distributed worldwide. There is little information about plant species’ reproductive
Ujjwal Layek +3 more
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Shared pollinators and sequential flowering phenologies in two sympatric cactus species [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background and aims – The reproductive characteristics of sympatric Cactaceae are important because they help to understand interfering or facilitating mechanisms that allow their coexistence.
Erika Arroyo-Pérez +3 more
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The importance of pollination and dispersal syndromes for the conservation of Cerrado Rupestre fragments on ironstone outcrops immersed in an agricultural landscape [PDF]
Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 2022 Studies on pollination and seed dispersal are essential for the conservation of plant diversity. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the pollination and dispersal syndromes of five fragments of the Cerrado Rupestre immersed in an agricultural landscape ...
Cássio Cardoso Pereira +3 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.
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Pollination and dispersal systems in a Cerrado remnant (Brazilian Savanna) in Southeastern Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2011 The aim of this work was to identify the pollination and dispersal systems among the species in a disjunct marginal cerrado area and to compare the frequency of these systems to those found in other Neotropical vegetation.
Katia Losano Ishara +1 more
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Phylogenomics reveals the evolution of floral traits associated with pollinators and pollinator-prey conflict within the carnivorous Pinguicula subgenus Temnoceras. [PDF]
Am J BotAbstract 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 +5 more
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Variation in plant-animal interactions along an elevational gradient of moist forest in a semiarid area of Brazil [PDF]
Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2016 Pollination and dispersal are critical ecological processes that directly affect the reproductive success of plants and are important for understanding the structure of plant communities.
Ivan Jeferson Sampaio Diogo +3 more
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Untangling biodiversity interactions: A meta network on pollination in Earth's most diverse tropical savanna. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe 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 +6 more
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No evidence for missed mutualists in an invasive plant with the buzz pollination syndrome
EcosphereThe 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 +4 more
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