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Tag: Brazil
Toxomerus basalis: The fly that uses a killer as a babysitter
Sundews are carnivorous plants that feed on small naive insects. So why does a fly deliberately lay its eggs on the plant?
The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers
Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.
Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna
Dark soils are the shadow of hidden agriculture
Stains left in the soil from past farmers, and the plants they cultivated, are helping illuminate prehistoric inhabitants of the Amazon.
Genetic diversity and dispersal of manioc in Amazonia
The wide distribution of the most common chloroplast haplotype agrees with an early dispersal of manioc across Brazilian Amazonia.
Expanding forests can be bad news for the environment
You might think that increasing forest cover is good news in Brazil, but that’s not always the case, according to a new study.
Gone but not forgotten…
In an oft-overlooked part of Brazil, botanists have found something bizarre growing
In the Pantanal it’s possible that botanists have found a plant that taking it’s first steps – upwards.
Plant Science for the Future (AoB at IPMB Part Two)
Inspiring new discoveries of the nature of plant life at the molecular level (AoB at IPMB Part One)
Co-ordinated carbohydrate metabolism and hormone synthesis enables plants to survive unfavourable field conditions
Trichome evolution in Neotropical lianas
Pollen limitation in hummingbird-pollinated plants
Many species of hummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical montane rain forest experience pollen limitation.