Innate or learned preference for upward-facing flowers?: implications for the costs of pendent flowers from experiments on captive bumble bees
Pollinator preferences for phenotypic characters, including floral orientation, can affect plant reproductive success. For example, hawkmoths and syrphid flies prefer upward- over downward-facing flowers in field experiments. Although such preferences suggest a cost of pendent flowers in terms of po...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Enviroquest Ltd.
2012-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Pollination Ecology |
Online Access: | https://pollinationecology.org/index.php/jpe/article/view/172 |