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Darwin's bee-trap: The kinetics of Catasetum, a new world orchid [PDF]
Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2008 The orchid genera Catasetum employs a hair-trigger activated, pollen release mechanism, which forcibly attaches pollen sacs onto foraging insects in the New World tropics. This remarkable adaptation was studied extensively by Charles Darwin and he termed this rapid response "sensitiveness." Using high speed video cameras with a frame speed of 1000 fps,
Nicholson, Charles C. +3 more
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Foliar salt spray exclusion and tissue tolerance underlie local adaptation to oceanic salt spray
American Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 8, August 2026.Abstract Premise Surviving the effects of oceanic salt spray is critical for plants in coastal ecosystems, yet the mechanisms of coastal plant resilience to salt spray are not well understood. We investigated mechanisms of salt spray adaptation by comparing five latitudinal pairs of yellow monkeyflower accessions locally adapted to coastal and inland ...
Madison L. Plunkert +3 more
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Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 4, Page 1937-1959, August 2026.ABSTRACT Chemical communication is the oldest and most widespread form of signalling among and within organisms. Among the many compounds involved in such communication, pyrazines – nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic molecules – are especially intriguing due to their widespread occurrence across the tree of life, from bacteria and fungi to insects and ...
Zowi Oudendijk +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2019 The fragmentation and habitat loss are the main causes of pollinators decline worldwide, however very little is known about the composition and distribution of neotropical pollinators along continuous micro-environments.
Ana Isabel Sobreiro +4 more
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Orchid Bees Of The Manu Learning Centre, Peru
, 2018 update version in: https://zenodo.org/record/1186936 ...
Allen, Laura +5 more
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Chemical niche differentiation among sympatric species of orchid bees [PDF]
Ecology, 2009 Male Neotropical orchid bees (Euglossini) collect volatile substances (fragrances) from flowers and other sources (e.g., decaying wood) and store them in specialized hind tibial pockets. The accumulated chemicals are later emitted during courtship display, presumably to lure conspecific females for mating.
Zimmermann, Yvonne +2 more
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Assessing ChatGPT for taxonomic and floristic studies
Nordic Journal of Botany, Volume 2026, Issue 8, August 2026.The advancement of biological sciences has long been closely linked to technological progress. ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence chatbot capable of producing human‐like conversational responses, has recently attracted attention as a potential support tool for scientific research.
Mykyta Peregrym +7 more
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Bioscience Journal, 2012 The Neotropical orchid bees have been the focus of several ecological studies in the last four decades, mainly due to the ease of attracting males of their species to synthetic baits that simulate floral fragrances.
André Nemésio
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Composition of Orchid Scents Attracting Euglossine Bees
Botanica Acta, 1991 AbstractFragrance composition of flowers from 101 plant species, especially orchids, were analyzed. Several compounds, including allo‐aromadendrene, β‐bourbonene, α‐copaene, α‐cubebene, 1,2‐dimethoxybenzene, 1,3,5‐trimethoxybenzene, epoxygeranyl acetate, 7,11‐epoxymegastigma‐5(6)‐en‐9‐one, two γ‐lactones, germacradienol, germacrene D, humulene, methoxy‐
Gerlach, G., Schill, R.
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TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract Sixteenth‐century herbaria are the oldest plant collections that survive today and, as such, they provide valuable insights in past floras and historical botanical interactions. One of the most fascinating still extant 16th‐century herbaria is the four‐volume collection of the German physician, botanist and traveler Leonhard Rauwolf (1535 ...
Anastasia Stefanaki +5 more
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