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Plant Sciences
Larissa Alves-de-Lima, Eduardo Soares Calixto, Marcos Lima de Oliveira, Leticia Rodrigues Novaes, Eduardo A. B. Almeida, Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi
Summary: Competition between Qualea multiflora and Q. parviflora exists in the Brazilian tropical savanna, but they do not compete for pollinator services due to the anti-competitive mechanism mediated by temporal flowering partition.
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Entomology
Vesna Gagic, Lindsey Kirkland, Liam K. Kendall, Jeremy Jones, Jeffrey Kirkland, Cameron Spurr, Romina Rader
Summary: The study found that substantial pollen limitation occurs when honeybees are alone, as they prefer to visit hermaphrodite flowers and do not transition well to female flowers. Additionally, seed set is lower when blowflies are present alongside honeybees.
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Plant Sciences
Xiaoyue Wang, Demei Hu, Yan Chen, Mengda Xiang, Hanqing Tang, Yin Yi, Xiaoxin Tang
Summary: In the distylous plant Tirpitzia sinensis, the long-styled and short-styled morphs exhibit differential floral traits relevant to pollination. The long-styled morph has more pollen and nectar, adapt to the pollination by hawkmoths active at night. The short-styled morph has a higher sucrose/hexose ratio in its nectar, making it more attractive to hawkmoths but with lower pollination efficiency.
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Horticulture
Shih-Kai Lo, Chih-Yi Hu, Su-Fen Roan, Tsung-Chen Su, Iou-Zen Chen
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between flower morphology and fruit yields in tea plants and analyzed 106 tea varieties. The results showed that flower traits within the same tea plant variety were highly homogeneous. The main flower trait affecting fruit yield was stamen bundle outer width, while the secondary trait was stigma width. These traits have the potential to be used as reference indicators for early selection in future breeding programs.
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Biology
Kara G. Leimberger, Bo Dalsgaard, Joseph A. Tobias, Christopher Wolf, Matthew G. Betts
Summary: The ecological co-dependency between plants and hummingbirds is significant for their evolution, ecology, and conservation. The lack of evidence for coevolution highlights the need for further research on interaction networks and mechanisms between plants and hummingbirds.
BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
(2022)
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Horticulture
Eun Ui Oh, Seong Cheol Kim, Mock Hee Lee, Kwan Jeong Song
Summary: This study investigated pollen application methods for artificial pollination in tetraploid kiwifruit cultivars. The results showed that repeated pollination enhanced fruit quality, but direct application of dry pollen had the lowest effectiveness.
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Cell Biology
Naima Ait Aabd, Abdelghani Tahiri, Redouan Qessaoui, Abdelaziz Mimouni, Rachid Bouharroud
Summary: Proper pollination design is essential for ensuring a supply of compatible pollen in argane orchards. This study investigated the effect of cross- and self-pollination on pollen germination and development in A. spinosa. The choice of an efficient pollinizer genotype, which is compatible with the main variety and blooms at the same time, is crucial for improving fruit set in argane orchards. The number and location of compatible pollinizers play a vital role in the design of argane orchards for future farming needs.
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Plant Sciences
I. Kiepiel, M. Brown, S. D. Johnson
Summary: This study investigated the pollination and breeding systems of a tree species called Schotia brachypetala in southern Africa, and found that opportunistic nectarivorous birds played an important role in seed production.
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Ecology
Mark A. McPeek, Sarah J. McPeek, Judith L. Bronstein
Summary: Numerous analyses have shown that antagonistic interactions can promote the coexistence of two species competing for a single resource, while the impact of mutualistic partners on coexistence is less understood. A mechanistic model was derived to illustrate that plant coexistence requires specific relationships, with pollinators being able to shape competitive hierarchy among plant species. Data on pollen limitation and nectar production across competing plant species will be crucial for evaluating the role pollinators play in promoting plant coexistence.
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Ornithology
Monica B. Ramirez-Burbano, Felipe W. Amorim, Alba Marina Torres-Gonzalez, Jesper Sonne, Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama
Summary: This study examined the interaction network between plants and hummingbirds in a birdwatching garden in Colombia, finding that hummingbirds heavily relied on artificial nectar feeders and that morphological matching was a key predictor of interactions. The garden attracted most, but not all, hummingbird species beyond their natural habitat, with native plants, especially the endemic tree Zygia lehmannii, being the most frequented.
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Plant Sciences
Juliana Izquierdo, Santiago M. Costas, Santiago Castillo, Matiias C. Baranzelli, Federico Sazatornil, Santiago Benitez-Vieyra
Summary: This study aims to investigate if differences in floral traits of Salvia stachydifolia can be attributed to variations in the relative contribution of hummingbirds and insects. The results suggest that differences in floral traits may be associated with the identity of the main pollinators, and these differences are likely due to differences in environmental conditions with altitude. The study also indicates that the variation in floral traits is not influenced by bioclimatic factors, implying the possibility of historical isolation and ongoing divergence among populations.
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Plant Sciences
Zamira Betancourt, Pascual J. Soriano, Hamleth Valois-Cuesta
Summary: Long-billed hummingbirds have a higher probability of transferring pollen from long stamens to short stigmas, while short-billed hummingbirds have a higher probability of transferring pollen from short stamens to long and short stigmas. These findings contribute to our understanding of the mechanisms behind gender specialization.
JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Marco Tulio Furtado, Raphael Matias, Rocio Perez-Barrales, Helder Consolaro
Summary: Distyly refers to a condition in which individual plants in a population express two floral morphs, L- and S-morph, characterized by reciprocal placements of anthers and stigmas between morphs. The function of distyly requires that pollinators collect pollen from L- and S-morphs on different parts along their bodies to then deposit it on the stigmas of the opposite morph, known as legitimate pollination.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
(2023)
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Agronomy
Allan Waniale, Rony Swennen, Settumba B. Mukasa, Arthur K. Tugume, Jerome Kubiriba, Wilberforce K. Tushemereirwe, Michael Batte, Allan Brown, Robooni Tumuhimbise
Summary: The study revealed that seed set in East African Highland Cooking bananas is influenced by different cultivars and sizes of bunches, with a preference for the distal end of the fruit. Different cultivars exhibit varying patterns in seed set distribution, with some showing more consistency than others.
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Ecology
Edy Fantinato, Judit Sonkoly, Peter Torok, Gabriella Buffa
Summary: The study found a hump-shaped relationship between community-level pollinator visitation rate and the quantity of floral resources, which was consistent across different types of floral resources. The relationship between the quantity of floral resources and the structure and robustness of the network was inconsistent among different types of floral resources, with only intermediate levels of nectar volume associated with high levels of network robustness.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Zoology
Ubaldo Marquez-Luna, Carlos Lara, Pablo Corcuera, Pedro Luis Valverde
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Zoology
Ubaldo Marquez-Luna, Carlos Lara, Pablo Corcuera, Pedro Luis Valverde
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Ecology
Carlos Lara, Hugo Antonio Curiel-Duran, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara
ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sergio Diaz Infante, Carlos Lara, Maria del Coro Arizmendi
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Entomology
Carlos Lara, Emilia Martinez-Bolanos, Karla Lopez-Vazquez, Cecilia Diaz-Castelazo, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Mariana Cuautle
ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2020)
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Biology
Jesper Sonne, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni, Pietro K. Maruyama, Andrea C. Araujo, Edgar Chavez-Gonzalez, Aline G. Coelho, Peter A. Cotton, Oscar H. Marin-Gomez, Carlos Lara, Liliana R. Lasprilla, Caio G. Machado, Maria A. Maglianesi, Tiago S. Malucelli, Ana M. Martin Gonzalez, Genilda M. Oliveira, Paulo E. Oliveira, Raul Ortiz-Pulido, Marcia A. Rocca, Licleia C. Rodrigues, Ivan Sazima, Benno Simmons, Boris Tinoco, Isabela G. Varassin, Marcelo F. Vasconcelos, Bob O'Hara, Matthias Schleuning, Carsten Rahbek, Marlies Sazima, Bo Dalsgaard
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Juliana Cardona, Carlos Lara, Juan Francisco Ornelas
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
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Environmental Sciences
Ian MacGregor-Fors, Juan F. Escobar-Ibanez, Jorge E. Schondube, Iriana Zuria, Ruben Ortega-Alvarez, J. Roberto Sosa-Lopez, Irene Ruvalcaba-Ortega, R. Carlos Almazan-Nunez, Moises Arellano-Delgado, Stefan L. Arriaga-Weiss, Alejandra Calvo, Leonardo Chapa-Vargas, Perla X. Silvestre Lara, Juan H. Garcia-Chavez, Osvel Hinojosa, Juan M. Koller-Gonzalez, Carlos Lara, Samuel Lopez de Aquino, Dulce Lopez-Santillan, Elisa Maya-Elizarraras, Juan P. Medina, Jose de Jesus Moreno Navarro, Luis E. Murillo Garcia, Landy Orozco, Ruben Pineda-Lopez, Erick R. Rodriguez-Ruiz, Jose R. Tinajero Hernandez, Ligia B. Torres Aban, Jorge H. Vega-Rivera
Summary: This study focused on urban bird diversity in Mexico, with a special emphasis on the role of urban greenspaces and heavily-built sites. Urban greenspaces were found to have higher species richness compared to heavily-built sites, and there were clear differences in the functional groups of birds in these two urban scenarios. The relationships between urban bird diversity and cities' biogeographic region, size, elevation, and annual rainfall were also explored.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brenda Juarez-Juarez, Mariana Cuautle, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Karla Lopez-Vazquez, Maria Gomez-Ortigoza, Maria Gomez-Lazaga, Cecilia Diaz-Castelazo, Carlos Lara, Gibran R. Perez-Toledo, Miguel Reyes
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Ecology
Bo Dalsgaard, Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama, Jesper Sonne, Katrine Hansen, Thais B. Zanata, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Ruben Alarcon, Andrea C. Araujo, Francielle P. Araujo, Silvana Buzato, Edgar Chavez-Gonzalez, Aline G. Coelho, Peter A. Cotton, Roman Diaz-Valenzuela, Maria F. Dufke, Paula L. Enriquez, Manoel Martins Dias Filho, Erich Fischer, Glauco Kohler, Carlos Lara, Flor Maria G. Las-Casas, Liliana Rosero Lasprilla, Adriana O. Machado, Caio G. Machado, Maria A. Maglianesi, Tiago S. Malucelli, Oscar H. Marin-Gomez, Vanessa Martinez-Garcia, Severino Mendes de Azevedo-Junior, Edvaldo Nunes da Silva Neto, Paulo E. Oliveira, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Raul Ortiz-Pulido, Ruth Partida-Lara, Blanca Itzel Patino-Gonzalez, Steffani Najara de Pinho Queiroz, Monica B. Ramirez-Burbano, Andre Rodrigo Rech, Marcia A. Rocca, Licleia C. Rodrigues, Ana M. Rui, Ivan Sazima, Marlies Sazima, Benno I. Simmons, Boris A. Tinoco, Isabela G. Varassin, Marcelo F. Vasconcelos, Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni, Stella Watts, Jonathan D. Kennedy, Carsten Rahbek, Matthias Schleuning, Ana M. Martin Gonzalez
Summary: The study investigated the impact of biogeography and evolutionary history on the role of functional traits in species interactions. Results showed that hummingbird clades dominated by long-billed species tend to visit longer flowers and show higher resource specialization. Additionally, bill length correlated with floral corolla length across regions and most clades, but did not strongly predict resource specialization.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jaume Izquierdo-Palma, Maria del Coro Arizmendi, Carlos Lara, Juan Francisco Ornelas
Summary: The plant-pollinator networks exhibit modular structures, where plants belonging to different specialized modules optimize pollination function by integrating floral traits. However, biological processes derived from both trait matching and forbidden links may play a more important role in tropical plant-hummingbird systems. More research with larger datasets is needed to determine whether phenotypic floral integration increases with morphological specialization in plant-hummingbird networks.
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Plant Sciences
C. Lara, L. Xicohtencatl-Lara, J. F. Ornelas
Summary: This study investigated the variation in reproductive traits of Psittacanthus calyculatus mistletoes on two different host tree species and at three different localities. The results showed differences in the quantity and quality of mistletoe production among different localities, but there was no significant difference in fruit formation probability, pollen viability, and other indicators among different hosts or localities. The observed differences in reproductive effort and success associated with host species or locality are proposed to be plastic or adaptive responses to varying conditions.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Jesus Zuniga-Palacios, Iriana Zuria, Ignacio Castellanos, Carlos Lara, Gerardo Sanchez-Rojas
Summary: Urban areas can serve as either safe habitats or ecological traps for biodiversity, with current studies suggesting they act more as safe sites, especially for species that can adapt well to urban environments. However, there is high heterogeneity among studies, and more research is needed on a wider range of species and regions to make generalizations about the role of urban areas in biodiversity conservation.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Deysi Munoz-Galicia, Citlalli Castillo-Guevara, Carlos Lara
Summary: The common green-eyed white butterflies have a strong innate preference for red flowers and demonstrate the ability to associate colors with rewards. They are able to learn new rewarded colors quickly and proficiently, especially if the spectral reflectance value of the new color is similar to the previously rewarded color.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Sergio Diaz Infante, Carlos Lara, Maria del Coro Arizmendi
TROPICAL CONSERVATION SCIENCE
(2020)