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When hummingbirds are the thieves: visitation effect on the reproduction of Neotropical snowbell Styrax ferrugineus Nees &amp;amp; Mart (Styracaceae)
Provedor de dados: 39
Autores: Maruyama,Pietro Kiyoshi; Custódio,Luciana Nascimento; Oliveira,Paulo Eugênio.
The spectrum of floral visitors associated with a particular plant is frequently larger than predicted by the traditional concept of floral syndromes and the role that unpredicted visitors play in plant reproduction deserves attention. Hummingbirds are frequently recorded visiting flowers with distinct floral syndromes, especially in some hummingbird flower poor ecosystem such as the Cerrado. In this study we investigated the effect of frequent hummingbird visits on the reproduction of melittophilous Styrax ferrugineus. The flowers were visited by many different insect groups and visits by hummingbirds were frequent, especially early in the morning when nectar availability was higher. Nectar parameters varied considerably during the flower life span, and...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cerrado; Nectar dynamics; Nectar thieves; Pollination syndromes.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062012000100007