Pollen adaptation to ant pollination: a case study from the Proteaceae
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DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcaa058
Abstract: Abstract Background and Aims Ant–plant associations are widely diverse and distributed throughout the world, leading to antagonistic and/or mutualistic interactions. Ant pollination is a rare mutualistic association and reports of ants as effective pollinators are… read more here.
Keywords: ant pollination; seed; pollen load; pollen adaptation ... See more keywords
Multi‐year stigmatic pollen‐load sampling reveals temporal stability in interspecific pollination of flowers in a subalpine meadow
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DOI: 10.1111/oik.06447
Abstract: 1 Inst. of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal Univ., CN-430079 Wuhan, PR China 2 College of Agriculture, Henan Univ. of Science and Technology, Luoyang, PR China 3 Inst. of Horticulture,… read more here.
Keywords: stigmatic pollen; multi year; pollen load; year stigmatic ... See more keywords
Different Pollinators’ Functional Traits Can Explain Pollen Load in Two Solitary Oil-Collecting Bees
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DOI: 10.3390/insects11100685
Abstract: Simple Summary Pollinators’ features, especially those with a functional role during the pollination process, have been shown to be a good predictor of pollen load for some bee species, but little is known about solitary… read more here.
Keywords: pollen load; bee species; functional traits; load ... See more keywords