Delphinium nelsonii Greene is a spring-flowering perennial of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Its blue flowers conform to a classical «bee pollination syndrome», but in western Colorado they are visited by hummingbirds (mostly in the first half of the flowering season) as well as bumble bee queens (mostly in the second half of the season). Experiments with potted plants showed that a bee deposits about 10 times as much pollen while visiting a flower as does a bird, and causes about la times as many seeds to be set. In contrast, bees and birds appear similar in the «quality» of pollen they deliver, e. g., in its outcrossing distance. At the level of entire pollinator populations, hummingbird visitation rates may be over 10 times as gre...
Two factors have been suggested to play a role in determin ing the limit to inflorescence size withi...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento d...
In pollination systems with a diverse community of floral visitors, qualitative and quantitative var...
In tropical forests, plant species are sparsely distributed and in order to increase their probabili...
In tropical forests, plant species are sparsely distributed and in order to increase their probabili...
Pollinators are an important selective agent and play a role in the evolution of certain floral char...
Not all visitors to flowers are pollinators and pollinating taxa can vary greatly in their effective...
The pollinator contribution to the reproductive success of species is made from the transfer of poll...
The 'most effective pollinator principle' implies that floral characteristics often reflect adaptati...
We study the mechanisms, rates and agents involved in pollination and subsequent reproduction of Sal...
Pollination syndromes refer to stereotyped floral characteristics (flower colour, shape, etc.) that ...
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Although hummingbirds are considered th...
Plants in the genus Erythrina are pollinated by birds, such that passerine pollination is the plesio...
Although sugar-water feeders are commonly used by enthusiasts to attract hummingbirds, little is kno...
G.L. Stebbins' most effective pollinator principle states that when pollinators are not limiting, pl...
Two factors have been suggested to play a role in determin ing the limit to inflorescence size withi...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento d...
In pollination systems with a diverse community of floral visitors, qualitative and quantitative var...
In tropical forests, plant species are sparsely distributed and in order to increase their probabili...
In tropical forests, plant species are sparsely distributed and in order to increase their probabili...
Pollinators are an important selective agent and play a role in the evolution of certain floral char...
Not all visitors to flowers are pollinators and pollinating taxa can vary greatly in their effective...
The pollinator contribution to the reproductive success of species is made from the transfer of poll...
The 'most effective pollinator principle' implies that floral characteristics often reflect adaptati...
We study the mechanisms, rates and agents involved in pollination and subsequent reproduction of Sal...
Pollination syndromes refer to stereotyped floral characteristics (flower colour, shape, etc.) that ...
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)Although hummingbirds are considered th...
Plants in the genus Erythrina are pollinated by birds, such that passerine pollination is the plesio...
Although sugar-water feeders are commonly used by enthusiasts to attract hummingbirds, little is kno...
G.L. Stebbins' most effective pollinator principle states that when pollinators are not limiting, pl...
Two factors have been suggested to play a role in determin ing the limit to inflorescence size withi...
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento d...
In pollination systems with a diverse community of floral visitors, qualitative and quantitative var...