Current knowledge of flower visitors and pollination in the Oriental Region is summarised.
Much less is known about pollination than seed dispersal and the coverage of habitats and …

Abstract “… the highly developed, or specialized types of one geologic period have not been
the parents of the types of succeeding periods, but… the descent has been derived from the …

The seeming ubiquity of spatio‐temporal variation in pollination regime suggests that
flowers ought to be adapted to a wide range of pollinators, yet many comparative biologists …

Abstract The KwaZulu‐Natal region of South Africa hosts a large diversity of asclepiads
(Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae), many of which are endemic to the area. The asclepiads …

Chapter 7 NECTAR CONSUMERS Page 1 Chapter 7 NECTAR CONSUMERS SUSAN W.
NICOLSON Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South …

We studied the floral biology of 12 populations of five rupicolousPleurothallis (Orchidaceae)
species occurring in campo rupestre vegetation at nine localities in Brazil. All of these …

Summary 1 Current views about the predominance of generalization of pollination systems
have stimulated controversy concerning the validity of pollination syndromes. In order to …

The plant-biotic pollinator interaction is crucial for the survival of both organisms. Insects are
recognised as effective biotic pollinators. As there are few specific studies on the pollination …

Plantations of exotic trees for industrial and agricultural purposes are burgeoning in the
tropics, and some of them offer the opportunity to study community ecology of animals in a …

Species richness and taxonomic composition of pollinator assemblages are documented for
26 plant species from temperate rain forests of northern Chiloé Island, southern Chile (42° …