Plant Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 148, No. 2 (2015), pp. 229-236 (8 pages) Background and aims – In highly seasonal habitats, sympatric species are often constrained to flower simultaneously. Many ...

Climate change can affect plant – pollinator interactions in a variety of ways, but much of the research attention has focused on whether independent shifts in phenology will alter temporal overlap ...

Biologist Anne Leonard is studying how bumblebees pick the wildflowers they use for food, and how that might affect the plant community around them. Leonard, a Department of Biology associate ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Increasing urbanization worldwide is a growing threat to biodiversity. At the same time, flowering plants are often more diverse in cities than in the countryside. This is due to flowering plants and ...

Daniels and colleagues then surveyed these sites to observe visiting pollinators in thirty-minute intervals from 10AM-5PM in sunny, non-windy conditions from May to August 2016 (with the linden trees ...

Understanding human impacts on biodiversity is hindered by a lack of long-term studies spanning decades and documenting these changes. Such studies are so rare because they are difficult to maintain ...

Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower. This simple interaction is something you may have witnessed many times. It is also a crucial sign of the health of our environment – and one I’ve ...

Interaction networks are typically presented and analyzed as compiled observations over multiple time periods or sites but decomposing networks into their spatiotemporal components can give us ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...