Ecological determinants of interactions as key when planning pollinator-friendly urban greening: a plant-hummingbird network example

BD Vitorino, AVB da Frota, PK Maruyama - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces may function as habitats for pollinators. However, it is poorly
understood how distinct ecological drivers determine the interactions between pollinator and …

Citizen science data reveal altitudinal movement and seasonal ecosystem use by hummingbirds in the Andes Mountains

C Rueda‐Uribe, L Herrera‐Alsina, LT Lancaster… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ensuring connectivity is crucial to protect landscapes but it requires knowledge about how
animals use ecosystems throughout the year. However, animal movements remain largely …

Implications of dominance hierarchy on hummingbird-plant interactions in a temperate forest in Northwestern Mexico

G López-Segoviano, M Arenas-Navarro… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
The structuring of plant-hummingbird networks can be explained by multiple factors,
including species abundance (ie., the neutrality hypothesis), matching of bill and flower …

Impacts of Supplemental Feeding on Sunbird-Pollination Systems in Young Fynbos Varies with Floral Abundance

A Mantintsilili, S Geerts, CL Seymour… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Supplementary sugar-water feeding offers nectarivorous birds a source of spatially
concentrated food, as opposed to the dispersed food available in flowers. This could impact …

Exotic and native plants play equally important roles in supporting and structuring plant-hummingbird networks within urban green spaces

MS Sánchez, C Lara - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Background Urban gardens, despite their transformed nature, serve as invaluable
microcosms for a quantitative examination of floral resource provision to urban pollinators …

Potential effects of artificial feeders on hummingbirds-plant interactions: are generalizations yet possible?

MA Echeverry-Galvis… - Ornitología …, 2024 - revistas.ornitologiacolombiana.com
La influencia humana en los ecosistemas y las interacciones entre especies han sido
observadas en variados estudios ornitológicos. Este fenómeno es evidente en áreas donde …

Hummingbird community structure and nectar resources modulate the response of interspecific competition to forest conversion

EA Guevara, C Bello, C Poveda, IR McFadden… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
On-going land-use change has profound impacts on biodiversity by filtering species that
cannot survive in disturbed landscapes and potentially altering biotic interactions. In …

Phenotype predicts interspecific dominance hierarchies in a cloud‐forest hummingbird guild

F Fernandez‐Duque, ET Miller… - Ethology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Competition over resources often leads to intra‐and interspecific interactions, which can be
detrimental to the individuals involved. Thus, natural selection should favor communication …

Season and sugar concentration affect bird behaviour at urban sugar-water feeders

DA Erastova, KE Cain, JA Galbraith… - Emu-Austral …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Sugar-water bird feeding in residential backyards is increasingly popular, but its effects on
wildlife are poorly understood. One concern is whether it results in maladaptive behaviour …

On the occurrence of frugivorous behavior by hummingbirds across the Americas

CCC Missagia, LM Vallejos, JM Almeida… - Ornithology Research, 2025 - Springer
Hummingbirds primarily feed on floral nectar, making them important pollinators. However,
we documented three cases of frugivory by hummingbirds, two in Brazil and the other in …