Changes in land use and land cover along an urban-rural gradient influence floral resource availability

L Lynch, M Kangas, N Ballut, A Doucet… - Current Landscape …, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review While several hundred thousand species of insects, mammals,
and birds rely on flowers for food or reproduction, a surprising dearth of literature focuses …

New evidence for mammal pollination of Protea species (Proteaceae) based on remote-camera analysis

KC Zoeller, SL Steenhuisen, SD Johnson… - Australian Journal of …, 2016‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Flower visitation by small mammals is difficult to observe directly on account of their
sensitivity to human presence and the nocturnal activity of some species. Their role in …

Hawkmoth pollination of the orchid Habenaria clavata: mechanical wing guides, floral scent and electroantennography

SD Johnson, MG Balducci… - Biological Journal of the …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Floral morphology can play a key role in mechanically guiding pollinators towards
reproductive structures, particularly when visibility is limited at night, but the functional …

[HTML][HTML] Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination of Kniphofia foliosa

S Lai, DJ Léandri‐Breton, A Lesaffre, A Samune… - Ecology, 2024‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Canids as pollinators? Nectar foraging by Ethiopian wolves may contribute to the pollination
of Kniphofia foliosa - PMC Skip to main content Here's how you know Official websites use .gov …

Civet pollination in Mucuna birdwoodiana (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae)

S Kobayashi, SW Gale, T Denda, M Izawa - Plant Ecology, 2019‏ - Springer
Inferring pollinators from floral traits is problematic because many flowers do not conform to
a prescribed phenotype by which they may be assigned to any one particular pollination …

Camera-trap** and seed-labelling reveals widespread granivory and scatter-hoarding of nuts by rodents in the Fynbos Biome

JJ Midgley, JDM White, GN Bronner - African Zoology, 2017‏ - journals.co.za
Many plant–animal interactions can be challenging to directly observe, due to species being
small, cryptic and/or nocturnal. Previous research on seed predation and dispersal by …

Many species of the Carnivora consume grass and other fibrous plant tissues

AR Franck, A Farid - Belgian Journal of Zoology, 2020‏ - belgianjournalofzoology.eu
Within the Carnivora order, the consumption of fibrous plant tissues (FPT), such as leaves
and stems, is only known to serve the nutritional needs of eight species in the Ailuridae and …

Of feathers and fur: Differential pollinator roles of birds and small mammals in the grassland succulent Aloe peglerae

SL Payne, CT Symes, ETF Witkowski - Austral Ecology, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The pollination syndrome of the genus Aloe, with gaudy inflorescences and orange–red
flowers, suggests bird pollination. However, the diversity of flowering phenologies and …

Multispecies storytelling in botanical worlds: The creative agencies of plants in contested ecologies

C McEwan - Environment and Planning E: Nature and …, 2023‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This paper argues for engaging in multispecies storytelling with plants to better
conceptualise the ethics and contested ecologies associated with biodiversity loss. It …

[HTML][HTML] Reproductive biology of three co-occurring, primarily small-mammal pollinated Protea species (Proteaceae)

N Kühn, J Midgley, SL Steenhuisen - South African Journal of Botany, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This study investigated the role of vertebrates in the reproductive biology of a community of
three co-occurring Protea species (Protea canaliculata, Protea sulphurea and Protea …