The predictive power of pollination syndromes: Passerine pollination in heterantherous Meriania macrophylla (Benth.) Triana (Melastomataceae) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The cloud forest species Meriania macrophylla (Benth.) Triana has pseudocampanulate flowers with bulbous stamen appendages, typical for the passerine pollination syndrome found in the Melastomataceae tribe Merianieae. The species is further characterized
José Miguel Valverde‐Espinoza +3 more
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A question of data quality-Testing pollination syndromes in Balsaminaceae. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Pollination syndromes and their predictive power regarding actual plant-animal interactions have been controversially discussed in the past. We investigate pollination syndromes in Balsaminaceae, utilizing quantitative respectively categorical data sets ...
Stefan Abrahamczyk +6 more
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Using the Literature to Test Pollination Syndromes — Some Methodological Cautions [PDF]
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2015 “Pollination syndromes” are specific combinations of floral traits that are proposed to evolve convergently across angiosperm lineages in response to different types of animal pollinators.
Jeff Ollerton +3 more
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The genetic mechanisms underlying the convergent evolution of pollination syndromes in the Neotropical radiation of Costus L. [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Selection together with variation in floral traits can act to mold floral form, often driven by a plant’s predominant or most effective pollinators. To investigate the evolution of traits associated with pollination, we developed a phylogenetic framework
Eugenio Valderrama +13 more
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Pollination syndromes and the origins of floral traits. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2023 BACKGROUND A general view in the study of pollination syndromes is that floral traits usually represent convergent floral adaptations to specific functional pollinator groups.
Assis LCS.
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A guide to sunflowers: floral resource nutrition for bee health and key pollination syndromes [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceSunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a prominent global oilseed crop with rising cultivation and appeal as a bee-friendly plant by providing abundant floral resources for pollinators.
Salena Husband +6 more
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Bioclimatic niches are conserved and unrelated to pollination syndromes in Antillean Gesneriaceae [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The study of the evolution of abiotic niches can be informative regarding the speciation drivers in a given group. Yet, two factors that could potentially affect niche evolution have seldom been addressed concomitantly, which are biotic interactions and ...
Hermine Alexandre +4 more
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Phylogenetical Position versus Pollination Syndromes: Floral Trichomes of Central American and Mexican Pinguicula. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Central American and Mexican Pinguicula species are characterized by enormous divergence in size and color of flowers and are pollinated by butterflies, flies, bees, and hummingbirds.
Lustofin K +3 more
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By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Cyclical fluctuations in reproductive output are widespread among perennial plants, from multi-year masting cycles in forest trees to alternate bearing in horticultural crops.
Garcia G, Re B, Orians C, Crone E.
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Acoustic traits of bat-pollinated flowers compared to flowers of other pollination syndromes and their echo-based classification using convolutional neural networks. [PDF]
PLoS Comput Biol, 2021 Bat-pollinated flowers have to attract their pollinators in absence of light and therefore some species developed specialized echoic floral parts.
Simon R +6 more
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