As a keystone clade, Miconia species support a huge variety of frugivores
Different species fruit sequentially, offering a year-round food resource.
Tag: mutualism
Ants a principal pollinator for a threatened member of the Proteaceae
The plant is impervious to the pollen damage ants usually cause.
Botanists explore how mint makes a home for ants and mites
Domatia in a member of the mint family are caused by cell proliferation, not leaf rolling
Final course: ‘Coffee’… *
Ant pollination in Brazilian savanna
Investment in reward by ant-dispersed plants
Employing plant functional groups to advance seed dispersal ecology and conservation
The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in the Apocynaceae
Botanists set the relationship status of Plants, Pollinators and Antagonists to “It’s complicated”
What happens when a flower is eaten or pollinated? A study in the American Journal of Botany shows one interaction can impact in an unexpected way on another.
The potential for phenological mismatch between a perennial herb and its ground-nesting bee pollinator
Diurnal and nocturnal pollination in a nursery-pollinated species
Inflorescence arrangement and nursery pollinator occupancy
Effects of plant polyploidy on the legume-rhizobia mutualism
It’s Bears, not Birds that scatter seeds in Alaska
The discovery comes after scientists spent time watching what bears do in the woods.