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Biology, 2021 Nectar robbers, which affect plant fitness (directly or indirectly) in different degrees and in different ways, potentially constitute a significant part of mutualistic relationships.
Qin-Zheng Hou +6 more
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Zooming-in on floral nectar: a first exploration of nectar-associated bacteria in wild plant communities [PDF]
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2012 Floral nectar of some animal-pollinated plants usually harbours highly adapted yeast communities which can profoundly alter nectar characteristics and, therefore, potentially have significant impacts on plant reproduction through their effects on insect foraging behaviour.
Álvarez-Pérez, Sergio +2 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2021 Background Nitraria tangutorum is an important desert shrub that shows resistance to drought, salt and wind erosion stresses. It is a central ecological species in its area. Here, we have studied how N.
Tingting Chen +10 more
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The Sensory and Cognitive Ecology of Nectar Robbing
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Animals foraging from flowers must assess their environment and make critical decisions about which patches, plants, and flowers to exploit to obtain limiting resources. The cognitive ecology of plant-pollinator interactions explores not only the complex
Sarah K. Richman +7 more
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Ecophysiological aspects of nectar reabsorption
Acta Agrobotanica, 2012 A number of approaches, both direct and indirect, have shown that nectar is reabsorbed by numerous plant species, irrespective of the age or sex of the flower.
Małgorzata Stpiczyńska, Massimo Nepi
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Nectar yeasts warm the flowers of a winter-blooming plant [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010 Yeasts are ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic microbiota, yet their ecological functionality remains relatively unexplored in comparison with other micro-organisms. This paper formulates and tests the novel hypothesis that heat produced by the sugar catabolism of yeast populations inhabiting floral nectar can increase the temperature of
Herrera, Carlos M., Pozo, María I.
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 Pesticide residues in nectar and pollen of plants can damage honeybees; however, few modeling approaches have simulated residue levels in nectar and pollen in support of exposure assessment for honeybees. This study introduced a generic modeling approach
Zijian Li
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Colored nectar as an honest signal in plant-animal interactions [PDF]
Plant Signaling & Behavior, 2012 Many flowering plants obtain the services of pollinators by using their floral traits as signals to advertise the rewards they offer to visitors-such as nectar, pollen and other food resources. Some plants use colorful pigments to draw pollinators' attention to their nectar, instead of relying on the appeal of nectar taste.
Feng-Ping, Zhang +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Nectar robbing can affect plant reproductive success directly by influencing female and male fitness, and indirectly by affecting pollinator behavior. Flowers have morphological and chemical features that may protect them from nectar robbers.
Xiaoyue Wang +4 more
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Nectar bacteria, but not yeast, weaken a plant–pollinator mutualism [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2013 Mutualistic interactions are often subject to exploitation by species that are not directly involved in the mutualism. Understanding which organisms act as such ‘third-party’ species and how they do so is a major challenge in the current study of mutualistic interactions. Here, we show that even species that appear ecologically similar can
Rachel L, Vannette +2 more
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