Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest
Aechmea distichantha, a widely-distributed facultative epiphytic bromeliad species, is present from rainforests to xerophytic forests. At its southernmost distribution (Humid Chaco) it grows in the understory and forest edges. This animal-pollinated bromeliad shows high phenotypic plasticity on it...
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Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
2018
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Aechmea distichantha habitat pollinators reproductive characters |
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Aechmea distichantha habitat pollinators reproductive characters Freire, Rodrigo Manuel Barberis, Ignacio Martin Vesprini, Jose Luis Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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Aechmea distichantha habitat pollinators reproductive characters |
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Aechmea distichantha, a widely-distributed facultative epiphytic bromeliad species, is present from rainforests
to xerophytic forests. At its southernmost distribution (Humid Chaco) it grows in the understory and forest
edges. This animal-pollinated bromeliad shows high phenotypic plasticity on its vegetative traits, but there
is no information about plasticity on its reproductive traits. Infructescences from shade plants were heavier,
had longer rachis, more spikelets, higher number of fruits/spikelet and higher number of seeds/fruit than those
from sun plants, but they presented similar number of open flowers. The number of visitation events was
similar in both habitats, but more flowers were visited in the sun than in the shade. Flowers were visited by
seven species (six insects and one hummingbird). In the sun, the carpenter bee was the most frequent visitor
and visited almost all flowers, whereas in the shade different species of visitors attained similar proportion of
visits and number of visited flowers. Despite visitation events were similar in both habitats, plants growing
in the shade set more seeds/fruit than plants growing in the sun. The higher proportion of visits accomplished
by carpenter bees compared to hummingbirds is probably a consequence of the climatic conditions in the
austral location of these populations. |
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article artículo |
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Freire, Rodrigo Manuel Barberis, Ignacio Martin Vesprini, Jose Luis |
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Freire, Rodrigo Manuel Barberis, Ignacio Martin Vesprini, Jose Luis |
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Freire, Rodrigo Manuel |
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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Reproductive traits and floral visitors of Aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a South American xerophytic forest |
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reproductive traits and floral visitors of aechmea distichantha plants growing in different habitats of a south american xerophytic forest |
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Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro |
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2018 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2133/13778 http://hdl.handle.net/2133/13778 |
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