Distribution patterns of orchid bees in xeric and mesic habitats on a tropical mountaintop
Most studies evaluating insect communities along climatic gradients in mountain regions have overlooked the relevance of the contrasting effects of xeric and mesic habitats on species distribution and richness. Mesic zones in xeric ecosystems can provide
Catarina Dias De Freitas +5 more
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The antiquity and evolutionary history of social behavior in bees. [PDF]
A long-standing controversy in bee social evolution concerns whether highly eusocial behavior has evolved once or twice within the corbiculate Apidae. Corbiculate bees include the highly eusocial honey bees and stingless bees, the primitively eusocial ...
Sophie Cardinal, Bryan N Danforth
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Knowledge on the geographical distribution of orchid bee species in Colombia and most of the Neotropics depends on monitoring and sample methodologies implemented and facilities to access diverse natural regions.
A. Parra-H, G. Nates-Parra
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Intrafloral Color Modularity in a Bee-Pollinated Orchid [PDF]
Flower color has been studied in different ecological levels of organization, from individuals to communities. However, it is unclear how color is structured at the intrafloral level. In bee-pollinated flowers, the unidirectional gradient in color purity and pollen mimicry are two common processes to explain intrafloral color patterns. Considering that
João Marcelo Robazzi Bignelli Valente Aguiar +6 more
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A contribution to the knowledge of the orchid bee fauna of the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) [PDF]
This study provides a list of orchid bees collected from the Los Amigos Biological Station, Madre de Dios, Peru. Specimens were captured by luring them to aromatic baits, eucalyptus oil and methyl salicylate, over a five day period in June, 2011. A total
Reed Niemack +3 more
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Different Flowering Strategies Ensure Reproductive Success in Two Coexisting Self-Incompatible Orchids. [PDF]
This study compares the reproductive strategies of two self‐incompatible orchids, Pholidota articulata (mass‐flowering) and Coelogyne prolifera (steady‐state flowering). Despite differences in pollinator visitation and pollinia transfer efficiency—higher in P. articulata—both species achieved similar natural fruit set rates over 3 years.
Wu SM, Zhang S, Wu YH, Chen XG, Gao JY.
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Forest patch isolation drives local extinctions of Amazonian orchid bees in a 26 years old archipelago [PDF]
Major hydroelectric dams are among key emergent agents of habitat loss and fragmentation in lowland tropical forests. Orchid bees (Apidae, Euglossini) are one of the most important groups of specialized pollinators of flowering plants in Neotropical ...
Peres, Carlos A., Storck-Tonon, Danielle
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Orchid bees as bioindicators of the state of conservation of a forest
Bioindicators are organisms that determine the environmental impact of an ecosystem and euglossine are used for responding to environmental changes, they are easy to observe, and their taxonomy is well known.
Bleysin Rojas +4 more
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The Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes of the Facultatively Eusocial Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma
Bees provide indispensable pollination services to both agricultural crops and wild plant populations, and several species of bees have become important models for the study of learning and memory, plant–insect interactions, and social behavior.
Philipp Brand +5 more
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Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach
Multiscale approaches are essential for understanding ecological processes and detecting the scale of effect. However, nested multiscale approaches retain the effect of the landscape attributes from the smaller spatial scales into the larger ones.
Lázaro da Silva Carneiro +5 more
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