Existing assessments of the ecosystem service of pollination have been largely restricted to diurnal insects, with a particular focus on generalist foragers such as wild and honey bees …
RE Walton, CD Sayer, H Bennion… - Biology …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dramatic declines in diurnal pollinators have created great scientific interest in plant– pollinator relationships and associated pollination services. Existing literature, however, is …
Pollinating insects are critical to ecosystem stability and food security. Concerns about the impact of insect declines have therefore seen increased research on the role of wild …
M Rachersberger, GD Cordeiro… - Journal of agricultural …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Apple flowers of most varieties require pollinator-mediated cross-pollination. However, little is known about the cues used by pollinators to find the flowers. We used bioassays to …
Background Global warming is expected to impact the chemical communication between flowering plants and their pollinators. Surprisingly, it is unknown whether and how …
Light represents one of the most reliable environmental cues in the biological world. In this review we focus on the evolutionary consequences to changes in organismal photic …
Petunia is endemic to South America grasslands; member of this genus exhibit variation in flower colour and shape, attracting bees, hawkmoths or hummingbirds. This group of plants …
E Ribas-Marques, J Díaz-Calafat, M Boi - Journal of Insect Conservation, 2022 - Springer
Noctuidae belong to one of the largest families of night-flying Lepidoptera. However, despite being among the most common nocturnal flower-visitors, they have seldom been included in …
Floral scent is an important component of the trait repertoire of flowering plants, which is used to attract and manipulate pollinators. Despite advances during the last decades about …