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I've been robbed! - Can changes in floral traits discourage bee pollination?

PLoS ONE, 2019
Some floral visitors collect nectar by piercing flower external whorls, acting as nectar robbers. They leave robbery vestiges, which can cause changes in floral characteristics, including physical and chemical signals that may influence flower ...
Camila Vaz de Souza, Maíra Vidor Salvador, Priscila Tunes, Luiz Claudio Di Stasi, Elza Guimarães   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Efforts to conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes across Europe remain insufficient, as biodiversity further declines. This is sometimes ascribed to conservation policy failing to address the meanings and values that farmers attribute to the social and ecological contexts shaping their decisions influencing biodiversity.
Maria L. Kernecker, Nina Hagemann, Anna F. Cord, Julian Wendler, Andrea Knierim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Great Diversity of Insect Floral Associates May Partially Explain Ecological Success of Poison Ivy (\u3ci\u3eToxicodendron Radicans\u3c/i\u3e Subsp. \u3ci\u3eNegundo\u3c/i\u3e [Greene] Gillis, Anacardiaceae) [PDF]

, 2018
Little is known about insect floral associates of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans, Anacardiaceae), despite the species’ ubiquity and importance in nature and society.
Senchina, David S, Summerville, Keith S
core   +2 more sources

Nectar production of pear (Pyrus communis L.) cultivars

International Journal of Horticultural Science, 2000
Detailed studies were made on the nectar production of 44, 16 and 18 pear cultivars, respectively, in a cultivar collection of pear during three consecutive years with highly different weather in the blooming.
P. Benedek, G. Kocsisné Molnár, J. Nyéki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flowering out of sync: Climate change alters the reproductive phenology of Terminalia paniculata in the Western Ghats of India

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how climate change impacts the plant life cycle is critical for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our findings suggest that Terminalia paniculata Roth, a common tropical deciduous tree species in the Western Ghats, is now flowering and fruiting at more scattered times than it used to in the past.
Ananthapadmanaban Karthikeyan, Venkatraman Karthik, Sivagnanam Chandrasekaran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A major electronics upgrade for the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov telescopes 1-4

, 2015
The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) located in the Khomas Highland in Namibia.
Ashton, T., Balzer, A., Berge, D., Brun, F., Chaminade, T., de, M., Delagnes, E., Fontaine, G., Füßling, M., Giavitto, G., Giebels, B., Glicenstein, J. F., Gräber, T., Hinton, J. A., Jahnke, A., Klepser, S., Kossatz, M., Kretzschmann, A., Lefranc, V., Leich, H., Lüdecke, H., Manigot, P., Marandon, V., Moulin, E., Nayman, P., Penno, M., Ross, D., Salek, D., Schade, M., Schwab, T., Simoni, R., Stegmann, C., Thornhill, J., Toussenel, F.   +33 more
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Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef, Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Petra Bauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing urban areas for insect pollinators: As town and cities continue to grow how can land managers help insect pollinators in urban areas? [PDF]

, 2015
Insect pollinators are essential for food production and wild flower reproduction yet these important insects are declining in the UK and in other regions of the world.
Baldock, Katherine, Goddard, William E.and Potts, Memmott, Jane   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Capability of Some Butterflies as Carriers of Common Milkweed Pollen [PDF]

, 2017
The common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca L., is remarkably adapted for cross pollination by insects. Its pollen sacs (pollinia) are often found attached to the appendages of bees, wasps, butterflies, and other insects that visit milkweed for its nectar ...
Wilson, Louis F.
core   +3 more sources

Variation in Floral Nectar Traits of Four Chestnut (Castanea spp.) Cultivars: Implications for Pollinators and Apiculture

Agriculture
Pollinator nutrition and honey production potential depend on nectar quantity, nectar availability across flowering phases, and sugar concentration. For chestnut (Castanea spp.), cultivar- and flowering phase-specific nectar data remain limited.
Ji-Min Park, Hyun-Jun Kim, Sang-Jae Won, Sung-Joon Na   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source