• Background and Aims 'Pollination syndromes' are suites of phenotypic traits hypothesized to reflect convergent adaptations of flowers for pollination by specific types of animals. They were first ...

Journal of Tropical Ecology, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Jul., 2001), pp. 577-592 (16 pages) A pollination and breeding system study was conducted on a neotropical palm, Astrocaryum vulgare, in Guyana, South ...

Many plants and crops rely on insects to pollinate them so they can reproduce. A new study has shown that several flowering plants from the group Euonymus are pollinated by fungus gnats, a dipteran ...

LAWRENCE -- The flowers that blossom in a multitude of shapes and colors all over our planet serve as a stunning demonstration of Earth's biological diversity. In part, this beautiful variety comes ...

In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted – and 27 years later, proved – that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of ...

Sand verbena, Abronia fragrans, has a moth pollination syndrome, or a suite of floral characters modified by natural selection driven by moth pollination. Its flowers are open all night but closed all ...

Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to the simple factors needed for the emergence of new species. Research into the flower preferences of ...

In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted -- and 27 years later, proved -- that opossums are key to its pollination. In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers ...

In Brazil there is a plant so strange that researchers predicted – and 27 years later, proved – that opossums are key to its pollination. The findings are published in the Ecological Society of ...