[HTML][HTML] Predicting plant–pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges

G Peralta, PJ CaraDonna, D Rakosy, J Fründ… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Plant–pollinator interactions are ecologically and economically important, and, as a result,
their prediction is a crucial theoretical and applied goal for ecologists. Although various …

Wild bee nutritional ecology: Integrative strategies to assess foraging preferences and nutritional requirements

MK Crone, DJ Biddinger, CM Grozinger - Frontiers in Sustainable …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Bees depend on flowering plants for their nutrition, and reduced availability of floral
resources is a major driver of declines in both managed and wild bee populations …

Opposing patterns of altitude-driven pollinator turnover in the tropical and temperate Americas

AS Dellinger, AM Hamilton… - The American …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abiotic factors (eg, temperature, precipitation) vary markedly along elevational gradients and
differentially affect major groups of pollinators. Ectothermic bees, for example, are impeded …

[HTML][HTML] Precocious in vitro flowering in threatened ornamental orchid, Dendrobium ovatum–Decoding the causal factors

I Pujari, VS Babu - Current Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Dendrobium has been the focus of floral industries for decades. Wild Dendrobiums serve as
germplasm for creating hybrids in the cut flower industry and are priced high. But, fewer …

An elevational gradient in floral traits and pollinator assemblages in the Neotropical species Costus guanaiensis var. tarmicus in Peru

R Maguiña‐Conde, D Zuñiga‐Rivas… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Different populations of plant species can adapt to their local pollinators and diverge in floral
traits accordingly. Floral traits are subject to pollinator‐driven natural selection to enhance …

Predicting predator–prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest

J Llewelyn, G Strona, CR Dickman, AC Greenville… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Species interactions play a fundamental role in ecosystems. However, few ecological
communities have complete data describing such interactions, which is an obstacle to …

Differences in nectar traits between ornithophilous and entomophilous plants on Mount Cameroon

Š Janeček, K Chmel, FL Ewome, K Hrubá, Y Klomberg… - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite a growing number of studies, the role of pollinators as a selection agent for nectar
traits remains unclear. Moreover, the lack of data from some biogeographic regions prohibits …

Drivers of sunbird‐plant interactions on Mount Cameroon: Between neutrality and niche‐based processes

G Uceda‐Gómez, K Chmel, P Janečková… - Biotropica, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The drivers behind plant‐pollinator interactions still need to be fully understood. Previous
research has suggested that observed interactions result from either neutral interaction …

Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Flower traits are critical to the mutualistic networks that underpin ecosystem function.
However, the broad‐scale drivers of flower traits are unclear. Using the megadiverse islands …

Species morphology better predicts plant–hummingbird interactions across elevations than nectar traits

MA Maglianesi, E Brenes… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species traits greatly influence interactions between plants and pollinators where floral
nectar is the primary energy source fostering this mutualism. However, very little is known …