Sharing pollinators can cause problems when pollen competes for transport
Tag - heterospecific pollen transfer
Alun Salt
Habitat partitioning through reproductive interference in Geranium
We’re familiar with seeing insects flit from one flower to the next, carrying pollen as they do so. What happens when they carry pollen to the wrong flower species? Sachiko Nishida and colleagues have been testing some...
Alex Assiry
Pollination quantity and purity
If you share a pollinator with another plant species in your location, is it a good idea to flower at the same time? You can only use pollen from another plant in the same species. If a bee arrives loaded with another...
Fi Gennu
Pollen limitation and reproductive assurance in a fragmented landscape
Humans have transformed landscapes, leaving remnant habitats embedded within a complex matrix. For many plants, the associated factors of decreased population size and increased land-use intensity surrounding them are...
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