Floral visitors of Chamaecrista debilis (Vogel) Irwin &amp; Barneby (Fabaceae - Caesalpinioideae) at cerrado of Estação Ecológica de Jataí, São Paulo State, Brazil

Nascimento, Elynton Alves do; Del‐Claro, Kleber

doi:10.1590/s1519-566x2007000400024

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“…The flowers contain poricidal anthers and depend on bees that are able to vibrate the stamens to release the pollen (Buchman, 1983;Gottsberger and Silberbauer-Gottsberger, 1988). Similarly to this study, in other studies with Cassiinae species, the pollinators of the genera Xylocopa, Centris and Bombus are frequently large bees (Carvalho and Oliveira, 2003;Westerkamp, 2004;Laporta, 2005;Nascimento and Del-Claro, 2007;Almeida, 2012;de Almeida et al, 2013).…”

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Breeding systems of enantiostylous Cassiinae species (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae)

Almeida

Bezerra

Oliveira

et al. 2015

Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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confidence: 84%

Breeding systems of enantiostylous Cassiinae species (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae)

Almeida

Bezerra

Oliveira

et al. 2015

Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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“…Although wasps are more frequently regarded as floral resource thieves [3][4][5][6], recent papers show that wasps can also effectively contribute to pollination [7]. In a study with Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae), Sühs et al [8] showed that social wasps, especially Polistes versicolor (Olivier, 1791), Polybia sericea (Olivier, 1791), Polistes simillimus (Zikán, 1951), and Polybia ignobilis (Haliday, 1836), were more representative in richness and abundance than bee species, being considered efficient pollinators.…”

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Flower-Visiting Social Wasps and Plants Interaction: Network Pattern and Environmental Complexity

Clemente

Lange

Del‐Claro

et al. 2012

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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Network analysis as a tool for ecological interactions studies has been widely used since last decade. However, there are few studies on the factors that shape network patterns in communities. In this sense, we compared the topological properties of the interaction network between flower-visiting social wasps and plants in two distinct phytophysiognomies in a Brazilian savanna (Riparian Forest and Rocky Grassland). Results showed that the landscapes differed in species richness and composition, and also the interaction networks between wasps and plants had different patterns. The network was more complex in the Riparian Forest, with a larger number of species and individuals and a greater amount of connections between them. The network specialization degree was more generalist in the Riparian Forest than in the Rocky Grassland. This result was corroborated by means of the nestedness index. In both networks was found asymmetry, with a large number of wasps per plant species. In general aspects, most wasps had low niche amplitude, visiting from one to three plant species. Our results suggest that differences in structural complexity of the environment directly influence the structure of the interaction network between flower-visiting social wasps and plants.

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“…The geographic range of this species extends from Costa Rica to Northern Argentina (Roubik & Hanson 2004), within which the bees are most commonly encountered in open areas, such as the Cerrado vegetation of Brazil (Rebêlo & Garófalo 1997, Nemésio & Faria-Jr 2004, Alvarenga et al 2007). E. nigrita plays an important role for the pollination of native and economically important plants such as, Campomanesia pubescens (Myrtaceae) (Torezan-Silingardi & Del-Claro 1998, Gressler et al 2006), Chamaecrista debilis (vogel) Irwin & Barneby (Fabaceae-Caesalpiniaceae) (Nascimento & Del-Claro 2007), Adenocalymma bracteatum (Bignoniaceae) (Almeida-Soares et al 2010), achiote Bixa orellana L. (Bixaceae) (Almeida & Pinheiro 1992), Brazil nut Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K. (Lecythidaceae) (Maués 2002), guava Psidium guajava L. (Myrtaceae) (Boti 2001), and sweet passion-fruit Passiflora alata Curtis (Passifloraceae) (varassin & Silva 1999).…”

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The importance of plant diversity in maintaining the pollinator bee, Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in sweet passion fruit fields

Silva

Bordon

Rocha-Filho

et al. 2012

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Abstract:The euglossine bee Eulaema nigrita plays an important role for the pollination of native and economically important plants, such as the sweet passion-fruit Passiflora alata. E. nigrita uniquely collects the nectar from the flowers of P. alata, nevertheless, it needs to visit other plants to collect pollen, nectar and other resources for its survival. There are two methods to identify the species of plants used by bees in their diet: by direct observation of the bees in the flowers, and through identification of pollen grains present in brood cells, feces, or in the bees' body. In order to identify the other plants that E. nigrita visits, we analyzed samples of pollen grains removed from the bee's body in the course of the flowering period of P. alata. Among our results, the flora visited by E. nigrita comprised 40 species from 32 genera and 19 families, some of them used as a pollen source or just nectar. In spite of being a polyletic species, E. nigrita exhibited preference for some plant species with poricidal anthers. P. alata which has high sugar concentration nectar was the main source of nectar for this bee in the studied area. Nonetheless, the pollinic analysis indicated that others nectariferous plant species are necessary to keep the populations of E. nigrita. Studies such as this one are important since they indicate supplementary pollen-nectar sources which must be used for the conservation of the populations of E. nigrita in crops neighbouring areas. In the absence of pollinators, growers are forced to pay for hand pollination, which increases production costs; keeping pollinators in cultivated areas is still more feasible to ensure sweet passion fruit production. Rev. Biol. Trop. 60 (4): 1553-1565. Epub 2012 December 01.

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Floral visitors of Chamaecrista debilis (Vogel) Irwin & Barneby (Fabaceae - Caesalpinioideae) at cerrado of Estação Ecológica de Jataí, São Paulo State, Brazil

Cited by 17 publications

References 19 publications

Breeding systems of enantiostylous Cassiinae species (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae)

Breeding systems of enantiostylous Cassiinae species (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae)

Flower-Visiting Social Wasps and Plants Interaction: Network Pattern and Environmental Complexity

The importance of plant diversity in maintaining the pollinator bee, Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in sweet passion fruit fields

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