by Miranda and Vieira
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| Ruellia brevifolia |
Read the whole summary in: English or Portuguese!
Read the scientific publication in JPE.
13 December, 2016
Floral morphs in cleistogamous Ruellia brevifolia (Acanthaceae)
Read the whole summary in: English or Portuguese!
Read the scientific publication in JPE.
12 December, 2016
Specialized and facultative nectar-feeding bats have different effects on pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards, in Southern Thailand
by Tuanjit Sritongchuay and Sara
Bumrungsri
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Recent advances in the study of pollination networks
have improved our ability to describe species interactions at the community
level. In this study, we compared the abundance and network strength of
facultative and obligate nectar-feeding bats to determine their roles in
pollinating mixed fruit orchards. We were particularly interested in the effect
of distance from forests and caves on the foraging activity of these two bat
groups.
Insect pollinators can triple the commercial value of Christmas holly and mistletoe
by Ollerton et al.
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| (A) Mistletoe and (B) holly berries growing on female plants in situ, and the same species packaged displayed for retail (C & D) Photos by J. Ollerton. |
Holly and
mistletoe are two seasonal crops that play a culturally important role as
symbols of Christmas across the world, though both also have pre-Christian
pagan connotations. Now for the first
time the role of insect pollinators in determining the commercial value of
these plants has been investigated, using sales records going back over the
last eleven years from Britain's largest annual auction of holly and mistletoe,
held every year in Worcestershire.
Analysis of the sales records of Nick Champion
Auctions in Tenbury Wells shows that insect pollination raises the sale price
of these crops by on average two to three times.
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