Nectar distribution and nectarivorous bird foraging behaviour at different spatial scales

A Coetzee - 2016 - scholar.sun.ac.za
While foraging strategies of animals may be shaped by the distribution of their food
resources, these strategies in turn also affect the ecology and evolution of their resources. In …

Pollination structures plant and nectar‐feeding bird communities in Cape fynbos, South Africa: Implications for the conservation of plant–bird mutualisms

S Geerts, A Coetzee, AG Rebelo… - Ecological Research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the current global concerns about pollinators, relationships between species
interactions and diversity are pivotal. If pollinator communities depend strongly on the …

Urban nectarivorous bird communities in Cape Town, South Africa, are structured by ecological generalisation and resource distribution

A Coetzee, P Barnard, A Pauw - Journal of Avian Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Biological communities are increasingly faced with novel urban habitats and their response
may depend on a combination of biological and habitat traits. The response of pollinator …

[PDF][PDF] Foraging and nectar use in nectarivorous bird communities

BG Collins, J Grey, S McNee - Studies in avian biology, 1990 - sora.unm.edu
Nectar-feeding birds, such as honeyeaters, sunbirds, and sugarbirds, usually occupy
habitats in which distributions of particular plant species, individual plants, and flowers are …

Food selection by avian floral visitors: an important aspect of plant–flower visitor interactions in West Africa

Š Janeček, J Riegert, O Sedláček… - Biological Journal of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Community-level studies have shown that plant–pollinator interactions are much more
generalized than previously expected. Consequently, many authors have questioned the …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial nectar feeders reduce sunbird abundance and plant visitation in Cape Fynbos adjacent to suburban areas

M Du Plessis, CL Seymour, CN Spottiswoode… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Globally, people feed wild animals to interact with nature. Attracting nectarivorous birds to
gardens using artificial nectar feeders is increasingly popular, yet little is known about its …

How New Guinea rainforest flower resources vary in time and space: implications for nectarivorous birds

ED Brown, MJG Hopkins - Australian Journal of Ecology, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in spatial and temporal patterning of flowering by populations of rainforest trees
fed upon by honeyeaters and flower‐visiting parrots was studied for 2 years in lowland …

Urbanization drives a reduction in functional diversity in a guild of nectar-feeding birds

A Pauw, K Louw - Ecology and Society, 2012 - JSTOR
Urbanization is a widespread and rapidly growing threat to biodiversity, therefore we need a
predictive understanding of its effects on species and ecosystem processes. In this paper we …

Nonrandom foraging by sunbirds in a patchy environment

FB Gill, LL Wolf - Ecology, 1977 - Wiley Online Library
Sunbirds (Nectarinia spp.) feeding at the East African mint Leonotis nepetifolia encounter
great variations in the nectar contents of flowers blooming in dense fields. The dispersion …

[PDF][PDF] The functional role of birds as pollinators in southern Cape fynbos.

KJ Whitehead - 2018 - naturesvalleytrust.co.za
Nectarivorous birds, particularly sunbirds, are important pollinators of plants in the Cape
Flora of South Africa, being responsible for pollinating approximately 5% of plant species …