Is the best way for a plant to attract bats as pollinators to hoist their flowers up high?
Tag - bat-pollination
Alun Salt
Field evidence of differential pollen placement by bat-pollinated plants
Competition for pollination can occur between sympatric plant species sharing pollinators, but can be minimized if each plant species places pollen on different areas of the pollinator’s body. Hitherto there has...
botanyone
Differential pollen placement increases pollination efficiency
Plant species that share pollinators are potentially subject to non-adaptive interspecific pollen transfer, resulting in reduced reproductive success. Mechanisms that increase pollination efficiency between conspecific...
Halloween Special: First record of bat-pollination in Tillandsia
Bats are responsible for pollinating several species of plants. A new paper in Annals of Botany reports for the first time bat-pollination of a species in the genus Tillandsia. Bromeliaceae is a species-rich neotropical...
AJ Cann