Bat pollination in the Caatinga: A review of studies and peculiarities of the system in the new world's largest and most diverse seasonally dry tropical forest

A Domingos-Melo, S Albuquerque-Lima, UM Diniz… - Flora, 2023 - Elsevier
Bat pollination is one of the most recent pollination systems to have been discovered. While
recent studies have provided novel insight into bat-flower interactions, there are gaps in …

The circular nature of recurrent life cycle events: a test comparing tropical and temperate phenology

VG Staggemeier, MGG Camargo… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The high diversity of plant species in the tropics has revealed complex phenological patterns
and reproductive strategies occurring throughout the year. Describing and analysing tropical …

Successional and phenological effects on plant‐floral visitor interaction networks of a tropical dry forest

J Cortés‐Flores, M Lopezaraiza‐Mikel… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐pollinator interactions are fundamental to ecosystem functioning; however, the role
that succession and phenology have on these interactions is poorly understood, particularly …

Reproductive phenology of useful Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest trees: Guiding patterns for seed collection and plant propagation in nurseries

AL Luna-Nieves, JA Meave, LPC Morellato… - Forest Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The propagation in nurseries of native plant species potentially useful for agroforestry,
silvopastoral and restoration programs is hindered by an inadequate supply of high quality …

Bromeliads going batty: pollinator partitioning among sympatric chiropterophilous Bromeliaceae

PA Aguilar-Rodríguez, M Tschapka… - AoB Plants, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Pollinators can be a limited resource and natural selection should favour differences in
phenotypic characteristics to reduce competition among plants. Bats are important …

Untangling winter chilling and spring forcing effects on spring phenology of subtropical tree seedlings

X Zeng, Y Du, Y Vitasse - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2023 - Elsevier
Global warming is having an unprecedented impact on plant phenology and vitality
worldwide, potentially leading to significant changes in the food web, carbon, water cycling …

Phylogeny, fruit traits, and ecological correlates of fruiting phenology in a Neotropical dry forest

J Cortes-Flores, G Cornejo-Tenorio, LA Urrea-Galeano… - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
In tropical dry forests, a high interspecific variation in the strategies of fruiting phenology has
been documented. Therefore, phenological responses may be mediated by influence of …

Edible fruit plant species in the Amazon forest rely mostly on bees and beetles as pollinators

FS Paz, CE Pinto, RM de Brito… - Journal of economic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Edible fruit plants of tropical forests are important for the subsistence of traditional
communities. Understanding the most important pollinators related to fruit and seed …

Flowering phenology shifts in response to functional traits, growth form, and phylogeny of woody species in a desert area

Y Wang, XD Yang, A Ali, GH Lv, YX Long… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Climatic factors are considered the major driving forces for variation of flowering phenology
among species. Yet, whether flowering phenology of woody species varies with functional …

Gender dimorphic species flower earlier than cosexuals

SJ Richardson, JK McCarthy, AJ Tanentzap… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of flowering is central to plant life‐history as it initiates sexual reproduction, thus
controlling plant interaction with pollinators and climate factors. A fundamental question is …