Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms

MHM Menz, RD Phillips, R Winfree, C Kremen… - Trends in plant …, 2011 - cell.com
Ecological restoration of plant–pollinator interactions has received surprisingly little
attention, despite animal-mediated pollination underpinning reproduction of the majority of …

Linking bees and flowers: how do floral communities structure pollinator communities?

SG Potts, B Vulliamy, A Dafni, G Ne'eman, P Willmer - Ecology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinators provide essential ecosystem services, and declines in some pollinator
communities around the world have been reported. Understanding the fundamental …

Variation in mutualisms: the spatiotemporal mosaic of a pollinator assemblage

CM Herrera - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1988 - academic.oup.com
Variation in time (annual and seasonal) and space (between-and within-population) is
examined for the pollinator assemblage of Lavandula latifolia (Labiatae), an insect …

Seasonal pattern of insect abundance in the Brazilian cerrado

F Pinheiro, IR Diniz, D Coelho… - Austral Ecology, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
In Brazil, a severe dry season lasting for approximately 5 months and frequent fires make life
difficult for cerrado insects. In certain aspects, the cerrado can be considered to be an …

Biology of the Neotropical orchid genus Catasetum: A historical review on floral scent chemistry and pollinators

P Milet-Pinheiro, G Gerlach - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neotropical genus Catasetum is one of the most notable orchids because of its
unusual reproductive strategy. In contrast to most orchids, all of the ca. 170 Catasetum …

Ups and downs in pollinator populations: when is there a decline?

DW Roubik - Conservation ecology, 2001 - JSTOR
Plant-pollinator systems inherently possess wide variation that limits the applicability of
surveys on population dynamics or diversity. Stable habitats are scarcely studied, whereas …

Long-term ecology of euglossine orchid-bees (Apidae: Euglossini) in Panama

DW Roubik, JD Ackerman - Oecologia, 1987 - Springer
Abundance patterns during 6–7 years and orchid visitation were determined for 51 species
of the 57 local euglossine bees. Male bees were counted at 3 chemical attractants …

Specificity and mutual dependency of the orchid-euglossine bee interaction

JD Ackerman - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1983 - academic.oup.com
Seasonal and geographic relationships, and host pollinator specificities are examined for
indications of interdependency in the orchid-euglossine bee interaction. The orchids are …

Habitat preference reflects social organization of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on a wintering ground

PJ Ersts, HC Rosenbaum - Journal of Zoology, 2003 - cambridge.org
Habitat preference is driven by a complex interaction among behavioural patterns, biological
requirements, and environmental conditions. These variables are difficult to determine for …

[HTML][HTML] Orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

A Nemesio - Zootaxa, 2009 - mapress.com
A detailed synopsis of all the orchid-bee species known to occur in the Atlantic Forest
Domain, eastern Brazil, is provided, including synonymy, complete type data, diagnoses …