Background Seedling recruitment is essential to the sustainability of any plant population.
Due to the minute nature of seeds and early-stage seedlings, orchid germination in situ was …

Background Conservation through reserves alone is now considered unlikely to achieve
protection of plant species necessary to mitigate direct losses of habitat and the pervasive …

The great taxonomic diversity of the Orchidaceae is often attributed to adaptive radiation for
specific pollinators driven by selection for outcrossing. However, when one looks beyond the …

Background Given the exceptional diversity of orchids (26 000+ species), improving
strategies for the conservation of orchids will benefit a vast number of taxa. Furthermore, with …

The orchid family is renowned for its enormous diversity of pollination mechanisms and
unusually high occurrence of non-rewarding flowers compared to other plant families. The …

Orchids are among the most threatened taxa globally due to increasing anthropogenic
threats, inherent rarity and specific conservation needs. But what are the global research …

Orchidaceae is one of the largest, most diverse families in angiosperms with significant
ecological and economical values. Orchids have long fascinated scientists by their complex …

Seed dispersal and the subsequent recruitment of new individuals into a population are
important processes affecting the population dynamics, genetic diversity and spatial genetic …

Because orchids are dependent on mycorrhizal fungi for germination and establishment of
seedlings, differences in the mycorrhizal communities associating with orchids can be …

One explanation for the widespread absence of floral nectar in many orchids is that it causes
pollinators to visit fewer flowers on a plant, and thus reduces self-pollination. This, in turn …