Bat pollination in the Caatinga: a review of studies and peculiarities of the system in the New World's largest and most diverse Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest

Revisiting phylogeny, systematics, and biogeography of a Pleistocene radiation

(2023) Monique Romeiro‐Brito et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Comparative nectar dynamics in four ornithophilous Melocactus (Cactaceae) species in a seasonally dry tropical forest

(2023) Alexsandro Bezerra‐Silva et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

Floral Specialization and Bat Pollination in Subtribe Cereinae (Cactaceae): A Morphological Approach

(2023) Sinzinando Albuquerque-Lima et al.   Diversity-Basel

North by northwest: Are unilateral cephalium‐bearing cacti bio‐compasses?

(2023) Sinzinando Albuquerque‐Lima et al.   ECOLOGY

An ultrasound-absorbing inflorescence zone enhances echo-acoustic contrast of bat-pollinated cactus flowers

(2023) Ralph Simon et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The interplay between spatiotemporal overlap and morphology as determinants of microstructure suggests no ‘perfect fit’ in a bat-flower network

(2023) Ugo Mendes Diniz et al.   Scientific Reports

Changing the main course: strong bat visitation to the ornithophilous mistletoe Psittacanthus robustus (Loranthaceae) in a Neotropical savanna

(2022) Ugo M. Diniz et al.   BIOTROPICA

Harpochilus corrugatus (Acanthaceae), a new and endangered chiropterophylous species from the highlands of central-southern Bahia, Brazil

(2022) FABIO ARAÚJO SILVA et al.   Phytotaxa

Nectar secretion patterns are associated to nectar accessibility in a guild of crepuscular-nocturnal flowering plants

(2022) Luis Miguel Primo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

A negative association between nectar standing crop and pollen transfer suggests nectar functions as a manipulator of pollinating bats

(2022) Arthur Domingos-Melo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The functional ecology of bat pollination in the African sausage tree Kigelia africana (Bignoniaceae)

(2021) Ethan Newman et al.   BIOTROPICA

Biotropicaannounces a new paper category: Natural History Field Notes

(2021) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   BIOTROPICA

Gongylolepis martiana , an Asteraceae pollinated by bats in the Amazon

(2021) Marsal Danrlei Amorim et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Bat–flower interaction networks in Caatinga reveal generalized associations and temporal stability

(2021) Eugenia Cordero‐Schmidt et al.   BIOTROPICA

Shining bright in the dusk: How do bat‐pollinated flowers reflect light?

(2021) Arthur Domingos‐Melo et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant functional types broadly describe water use strategies in the Caatinga, a seasonally dry tropical forest in northeast Brazil

(2021) Cynthia L. Wright et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Tracking the xeric biomes of South America: The spatiotemporal diversification of Mandacaru cactus

(2021) Danilo Trabuco Amaral et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Where is Natural History in Ecological, Evolutionary, and Behavioral Science?

(2020) Joseph Travis   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Reproductive biology of columnar cacti: are bats the only protagonists in the pollination of Pilosocereus, a typical chiropterophilous genus?

(2020) Emerson Antônio Rocha et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Pollen flow within and among isolated populations of two rare, self-compatible plant species from inselbergs of Northeast Brazil

(2020) Artur M. Wanderley et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Pollination biology of the endangered columnar cactus Cipocereus crassisepalus: a case of close relationship between plant and pollinator

(2020) Cristiane Martins et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

Paucity of natural history data impedes phylogenetic analyses of pollinator‐driven evolution

(2020) Timotheüs Niet   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pollination syndromes in the 21 st century: where do we stand and where may we go?

(2020) Agnes S. Dellinger   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nocturnal bees exploit but do not pollinate flowers of a common bat-pollinated tree

(2020) Fernanda Figueiredo de Araujo et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

“Sweet Rain” From Bat-Pollinated Flowers: How Does Sugar Concentration Modulate Nectar Retention?

(2020) Arthur Domingos-Melo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Bats and hawkmoths form mixed modules with flowering plants in a nocturnal interaction network

(2020) Joel A. Queiroz et al.   BIOTROPICA

Ipomoea vespertilia (Convolvulaceae), a new species revealed by pollinator observation

(2019) Francisco Diego Sousa Santos et al.   BRITTONIA

Tempo and mode in coevolution of Agave sensu lato (Agavoideae, Asparagaceae) and its bat pollinators, Glossophaginae (Phyllostomidae)

(2019) I.N. Flores-Abreu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Diet and parasites of Lonchophylla inexpectata Moratelli & Dias, 2015 (Chiroptera, Lonchophyllinae) in the threatened Caatinga scrublands from Ceará (northeastern Brazil)

(2019) Shirley Seixas Pereira da Silva et al.   STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT

Flowers up! The effect of floral height along the shoot axis on the fitness of bat-pollinated species

(2019) Ugo M Diniz et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Climate change will reduce suitable Caatinga dry forest habitat for endemic plants with disproportionate impacts on specialized reproductive strategies

(2019) Jéssica Luiza Souza e Silva et al.   PLoS One

Does nomenclatural stability justify para/polyphyletic taxa? A phylogenetic classification in the xeric clade Pitcairnioideae (Bromeliaceae)

(2019) JanaÍna Gomes-Da-Silva et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

It's raining fragrant nectar in the Caatinga: evidence of nectar olfactory signaling in bat‐pollinated flowers

(2019) Arthur Domingos‐Melo et al.   ECOLOGY

The Context Dependence of Pollinator-Mediated Selection in Natural Populations

(2019) Nina Sletvold   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Pollination by bats enhances both quality and yield of a major cash crop in Mexico

(2019) Constance J. Tremlett et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Divergent responses of plant reproductive strategies to chronic anthropogenic disturbance and aridity in the Caatinga dry forest

(2019) Jéssica Luiza S. Silva et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

An updated plant checklist of the Brazilian Caatinga seasonally dry forests and woodlands reveals high species richness and endemism

(2019) Moabe F. Fernandes et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Inside or out? Cave size and landscape effects on cave-roosting bat assemblages in Brazilian Caatinga caves

(2019) Juan Carlos Vargas-Mena et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Tropical savannas and dry forests

(2018) R. Toby Pennington et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bat and bee pollination in Psittacanthus mistletoes, a genus regarded as exclusively hummingbird-pollinated

(2018) Rodrigo F. Fadini et al.   ECOLOGY

Follow me: foraging distances of Leptonycteris yerbabuenae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Sonora determined by fluorescent powder

(2018) Rodrigo A Medellin et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Combining high-throughput sequencing and targeted loci data to infer the phylogeny of the “ Adenocalymma - Neojobertia ” clade (Bignonieae, Bignoniaceae)

(2018) Luiz Henrique M. Fonseca et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Reproductive ecology of Agave colorata: the importance of nectar-feeding bats and the germination consequences of self-pollination

(2018) Dalia Berenice Borbón-Palomares et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Assessing nature's contributions to people

(2018) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetics of New World ‘justicioids’ (Justicieae: Acanthaceae): Major Lineages, Morphological Patterns, and Widespread Incongruence with Classification

(2018) Carrie A. Kiel et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

New species of Burmeistera (Campanulaceae: Lobelioideae) from Ecuador

(2018) ANDREA F. VALLEJO et al.   Phytotaxa

Patterns and mechanisms in plant-pollinator interactions: Stefan Vogel's contribution to contemporary pollination biology

(2017) Andrea Cocucci et al.   FLORA

Stefan Vogel's analysis of floral syndromes in the South African flora: An appraisal based on 60 years of pollination studies

(2017) Steven D. Johnson et al.   FLORA

Opportunistic Use of Banana Flower Bracts byGlossophaga soricina

(2016) Meghan Murphy et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Flowering phenology, growth forms, and pollination syndromes in tropical dry forest species: Influence of phylogeny and abiotic factors

(2016) Jorge Cortés-Flores et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Land use, fallow period and the recovery of a Caatinga forest

(2016) Mellissa S. Sobrinho et al.   BIOTROPICA

Molecular phylogenetics, historical biogeography and character evolution inDyckia(Bromeliaceae, Pitcairnioideae)

(2016) Diego S. B. Pinangé et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Sampling networks of ecological interactions

(2016) Pedro Jordano   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Vertebrate mixed pollination system in Encholirium spectabile: A bromeliad pollinated by bats, opossum and hummingbirds in a tropical dry forest

(2016) J.A. Queiroz et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Revisiting the phylogeny of Bombacoideae (Malvaceae): Novel relationships, morphologically cohesive clades, and a new tribal classification based on multilocus phylogenetic analyses

(2016) Jefferson G. Carvalho-Sobrinho et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Patterns and Processes in Nocturnal and Crepuscular Pollination Services

(2016) Renee M. Borges et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

(2016) et al.   SCIENCE

Stefan Vogel (1925–2015)

(2016) Hans Walter Lack   Willdenowia

REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

(2015) Nicolas Mouquet et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Floral traits driving reproductive isolation of two co-flowering taxa that share vertebrate pollinators

(2015) Joel A. Queiroz et al.   AoB Plants

Pollination syndromes in a Caatinga plant community in northeastern Brazil: seasonal availability of floral resources in different plant growth habits

(2014) ZGM Quirino et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Habitat use and movements of Glossophaga soricina and Lonchophylla dekeyseri (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in a Neotropical savannah

(2014) Ludmilla M.S. Aguiar et al.   Zoologia

The evolutionary history of Mimosa (Leguminosae): Toward a phylogeny of the sensitive plants

(2011) Marcelo F. Simon et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Ecosystem services provided by bats

(2011) Thomas H. Kunz et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Floral Acoustics: Conspicuous Echoes of a Dish-Shaped Leaf Attract Bat Pollinators

(2011) R. Simon et al.   SCIENCE

Fur versus Feathers: Pollen Delivery by Bats and Hummingbirds and Consequences for Pollen Production

(2010) Nathan Muchhala et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Reproductive biology of woody species in Caatinga, a dry forest of northeastern Brazil

(2010) Ana Virgínia de Lima Leite et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A generalized pollination system in the tropics: bats, birds and Aphelandra acanthus

(2009) Nathan Muchhala et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The evolution of bat pollination: a phylogenetic perspective

(2009) Theodore H. Fleming et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Bat Eyes Have Ultraviolet-Sensitive Cone Photoreceptors

(2009) Brigitte Müller et al.   PLoS One

Nectar-feeding bird and bat niches in two worlds: pantropical comparisons of vertebrate pollination systems

(2008) Theodore H. Fleming et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY