Corrigendum to: A catch-all leguminous tree: Erythrina velutina visited and pollinated by vertebrates at an oceanic island

Abstract

The Editor would like to draw attention to an omission of column numbers from Fig. 2 in the above article. The figure as it should appear is reproduced below. The omission was a production error and the Editor apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused. Abstract. Species of the pantropical genus Erythrina (Fabaceae) are visited by perching and/or hovering birds in the mainland. At the oceanic island of Fernando de Noronha, north-eastern Brazil, we found that Erythrina velutina Willd. blooms during the dry season and the flowers are visited by a small vertebrate assemblage. Flowers last 2 days and their stigmas remain receptive, although only first-day flowers produce nectar. Nectar is dilute and produced copiously. All terrestrial native vertebrates (three of them endemics), the dove Zenaida auriculata noronha, the perching birds Vireo gracilirostris and Elaenia ridleyana, and the lizard Euprepis atlanticus are regular visitors and pollinators. The features of E. velutina conform to those of passerine-pollinated species within the genus. Its nectar is a resource sought by the vertebrates, which visit the inflorescences from dawn to sunset. Since none of the visitors depends on nectar as a major food source, the flowers are likely to serve a dual purpose, i.e. water balance and energy intake, similarly to the findings for some Erythrina species in Neotropic and Palaeotropic mainlands. However, E. velutina is the only species within the genus that is visited and pollinated by doves and lizards.

Comparison of the ecology and evolution of plants with a generalist bird pollination system between continents and islands worldwide

“…F). Thus, generalist birds mainly feed on nectar during the dry season (Franklin, ), when it may represent a valuable source of both energy and water (Sazima, Sazima & Sazima, ). On islands, a similar phenological pattern is found: flowering occurs largely in the dry season (46.8%), 10.6% of species flower during the transition between the dry and rainy season, 19.2% during the transition between rainy and dry season, and 23.4% during the rainy season (Fig.…”

Percepção ambiental de agricultores de região semiárida sobre os anfíbios anuros e biocontrole de insetos pragas em sistemas irrigados e não irrigados, às margens do rio São Francisco, Brasil

“…Devido à predileção alimentar dos anfíbios por variedades de artrópodes, incluindo moscas, borboletas, mariposas (principalmente larvas), e besouros (Duellman e Trueb, 1994;Petranka, 1998;Lannoo, 2005;Abrol, 2012), muitas espécies contribuem efetivamente para o controle de pragas. O sapo Lysapsus limellus, por exemplo, se alimenta de moscas da família Ephydridae que transmitem doenças humanas em regiões neotropicais (Valencia-Aguilar et al, 2013;Sazima et al, 2009). A predação de mosquitos por anfíbios pode contribuir para a diminuição de doenças humanas, onde esses artrópodes são vetores de transmissão de vírus, como da febre amarela, dengue e malária (Abrol, 2012).…”