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Good heavens what animal can pollinate it? A fungus-like holoparasitic plant potentially pollinated by opossums

ECOLOGY (2020)

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ECOLOGY

Volume 101, Issue 5, Pages -

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WILEY

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3001

Keywords

Atlantic forest; Didelphis; hummingbird pollination; marsupial pollination; non-flying mammal; pollination; wasp pollination

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Institute of Biosciences of SAo Paulo State University (Unesp, Botucatu)
Red Cyted-Sepodi - Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo [417RT0527]
National Institutes for Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation MCTIC/CNPq [465610/2014-5]
UNESP - CAPES-PrInt Program
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) [001]
Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2017/27177-9, 2019/01436-3, 2011/22215-3]
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq [311820/2018-2]

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