Many emerging invasive weeds display rapid adaptation against different stressful
environments compared to their natives. Rapid adaptation and dispersal habits helped …

Stingless bees are essential pollinators in tropical ecosystems. Yet compared to their
temperate zone counterparts, we know very little about how they respond to agriculture …

Stingless bees are major flower visitors in the tropics, but their foraging preferences and
behavior are still poorly understood. Studying stingless bee interactions with angiosperms is …

The possibility to identify plants based on the taxonomic information coming from their pollen
grains offers many applications within various biological disciplines. In the past and …

Orchid bee species are important pollinators in the Neotropics. While male orchid bees are
known to have a close interaction with odor-rewarding flowers, orchid bee females are often …

Molecular biodiversity surveys have been increasingly applied in hyperdiverse tropical
regions as an efficient tool for rapid species assessment of partially undiscovered fauna and …

Little is known about the agroecological implications of the Asian honey bee Apis cerana
Fabricius in its vast native range including southeast India. To identify the foraging …

Simple Summary The preservation of biological diversity is one of the main tasks of modern
ecology. A decrease in the bee population for various reasons can negatively affect plant …

In endangered crayfish conservation projects, it is paramount to map the distribution of the
causative agent of crayfish plague, Aphanomyces astaci, in native populations. Considering …

The high diversity and limited floral information in tropical forests often pose a challenge for
species identification. However, over the past decade, DNA barcoding has been employed …