The pollen virome of wild plants and its association with variation in floral traits and land use

AM Fetters, PG Cantalupo, N Wei, MTS Robles… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pollen is a unique vehicle for viral spread. Pollen-associated viruses hitchhike on or within
pollen grains and are transported to other plants by pollinators. They are deposited on …

[HTML][HTML] An overview of the pollination interactions between the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) and insects in Asia

S Appalasamy, N Arumugam, VR Pasupuleti… - EJE, 2023 - eje.cz
The plant-biotic pollinator interaction is crucial for the survival of both organisms. Insects are
recognised as effective biotic pollinators. As there are few specific studies on the pollination …

Plant-pollinator meta-network of the Kashmir Himalaya: Structure, modularity, integration of alien species and extinction simulation

ZA Rather, J Ollerton, SH Parey, S Ara, S Watts… - Flora, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant-pollinator studies are increasingly using network analysis to investigate the structure
and function of such communities. However, many areas of high biodiversity largely remain …

Flowers of ruderal species are numerous but small, short and low‐rewarding

L Genty, E Kazakou, A Metay, M Baude, A Gardarin… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Weed species are ecological models that recently received considerable attention due to
their particular strategies linked to their ruderal‐competitive traits. They are known to have …

Las abejas sin aguijón (Tribu Meliponini) en los agroecosistemas de América Latina

N Real-Luna, JE Rivera-Hernández… - Revista mexicana de …, 2022 - scielo.org.mx
Los meliponinos son importantes polinizadores de plantas silvestres y cultivadas en
América Latina. Además, estas abejas tienen características de un bioindicador …

Landscape or local? Distinct responses of flower visitor diversity and interaction networks to different land use scales in agricultural tropical highlands

N Escobedo-Kenefic, QB Casiá-Ajché… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Land use change has been identified as a cause for biodiversity loss and has significant
effects on pollinators and their interactions with plants. Interaction network analyses …

Honey bee foraging density depends on plant size

TM Penberthy, MK Dillon, X Chen… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
The spatial distribution of flowers has important impacts on pollinator movement and
foraging decisions. For example, it is well established that bumble bees typically visit larger …

Diversidad de especies de plantas arvenses en tres monocultivos del Bajío, México

R Guzmán-Mendoza, V Hernández-Hernández… - Polibotánica, 2022 - scielo.org.mx
Las plantas arvenses son fuertes competidoras en los cultivos, pero también constituyen un
componente importante de los agroecosistemas, por lo que es relevante conocer aspectos …

Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants

H Qin, X Yi - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Two economies of scale, predator satiation and pollination efficiency, have
been proposed to explain the evolutionary mechanisms of mast seeding adopted by some …

Water stress and nitrogen supply affect floral traits and pollination of the white mustard, Sinapis alba (Brassicaceae)

A Akter, J Klečka - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Abstract Changes in environmental conditions are likely to have a complex effect on the
growth of plants, their phenology, plant-pollinator interactions, and reproductive success …