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Foraging energetics reveals late‐summer challenges for pollinators across two British cities

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Foraging bees often work within fine energetic margins, but recent work has shown that foraging conditions can vary markedly across the year. Despite the importance of seasonality for pollinator foraging, most work in this area has relied on indirect approaches. However,
Ciaran Harris, Francis L. W. Ratnieks, Nicholas J. Balfour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FstQst Nectar Measurements

, 2019
FstQst Nectar Measurements.xlsx" Irene's spreadsheet of individual nectar measurements. Each row is an individual flower. Columns: Date (measurement date) # (sample of day) Time (Measurement time) Individual (Individual ID number) Infl.
Castillo, Allan S., Rausher, Mark D., Joanna L. Rifkin (3288162), Liao, Irene T., Rifkin, Joanna L., Allan S. Castillo (8034281), Mark D. Rausher (8029460), Irene T. Liao (5960981)   +7 more
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Warming and community context drive rapid plant evolution

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Abiotic and biotic factors are important drivers of plant evolution, but how these factors interact to influence plant evolution in multispecies communities is still poorly understood. We performed experimental evolution exposing Brassica rapa plants to a combination of
Juan Traine, Florian P. Schiestl, Quint Rusman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollen landscape saturation on pollinator bodies reduces pollen deposition by subsequently visited bat‐pollinated flowers

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Sexual selection in flowering plants often operates through male–male competition, yet the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon remain difficult to demonstrate. One potential arena for such competition is pollen placement on pollinators, where pollen grains from ...
Vinícius L. G. Brito, Nathan Muchhala, Natalia Castaño‐Rubiano, Monika M. Lipińska, Alejandro Zuluaga, Bruce Anderson   +5 more
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Is Self-Incompatibility Related to Nectar Presence in Dendrobium?

Plants
Studies on the gain or loss of nectar during the course of evolution in Dendrobium Sw. (Orchidaceae) are able to provide important information concerning the reproductive biology of this enormous orchid genus and highlight reproductive barriers—in ...
Karolina Zielińska, Kamil Kisło, Piotr Dobrzyński, Kevin L. Davies, Małgorzata Stpiczyńska   +4 more
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Precipitation‐mediated asymmetric fitness consequences of nectar robbing in distylous Primula florindae

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Flowers with deep corollas are frequently associated with nectar robbing, a behaviour that often reduces pollen transfer and seed production. Robbing scars, however, may further affect plant reproductive success through rainwater entry into corolla tubes.
Wu Sun, Judith Trunschke, Run‐Dong Shi, Hao Wang, Chang‐Yun Zheng, Zi‐Lin Xu, Jie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nectar Impact

, 2016
Nectar Impact documents the work of the Nectar Virtual Laboratories, rich online environments that are built and led by the Australian research sector; and the Nectar Research Cloud, which provides computing infrastructure, software and services that ...
Mulvey, Sarah, Barker, Michelle, Nisbet, Sarah, Mecoles, Karen, McMillan, Patricia, Moloney, Glenn   +5 more
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Pollinator community composition and pollen resource use in calcareous grasslands under different landscape contexts across Europe

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
In this paper, we show that pronounced differences in pollinator communities exist between grasslands embedded in contrasting agricultural landscape contexts. Opportunistic foraging strategies of most pollinators resulted in large interaction turnover, but these shifts did not translate into major changes in overall network structure, most likely as a ...
Olivia Bernhardsson, Epp Valdaru, Tsipe Aavik, Lucie M. Baltz, Tomáš Dostálek, L. Marie Ende, Khalil Jegham, Marianne Kivastik, Zuzana Münzbergová, Hana Pánková, Jan Plue, Patrycja Pluta, Iris Reinula, Virve Sõber, Panagiotis Theodorou, Sabrina Träger, Mari‐Liis Viljur, Hans Jacquemyn   +17 more
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Optimising daily sampling of plant–bee interaction networks

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Daily variation in ecological interaction networks is rarely quantified due to limited temporal sampling, yet network structure may change substantially within a single day. We show that plant–bee networks exhibit strong intraday shifts in composition and structure, and that sampling distributed across key daily periods better captures network ...
Caio S. Ballarin, Jorge Isla, Blanca Arroyo‐Correa, Elena Quintero, Leandro Hachuy‐Filho, Felipe W. Amorim, Pedro Jordano   +6 more
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Complexity promotes stability in mutualistic networks through weaker mutualistic dependencies: Insights from Generalized Modelling

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
We show that complexity, but not nestedness or modularity, increase dynamical stability of mutualistic networks, mainly through a weakening in mutualistic dependencies with complexity. Abstract Mutualistic networks provide essential contributions to long‐term ecosystem functioning and food security, but Anthropocene stressors continue to alter their ...
Timo Metz, Jan Timo Bachmann, Nico Blüthgen, Thilo Gross   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source