Neotropical woody bamboos range from northern Mexico to southern Argentina and Chile. The most interesting aspect of bamboo biology is their flowering habit. The species that are the most intriguing are those that manifest ...

This study demonstrates that stingless bees (Apidae, Hymenoptera) amount to approximately 70% of all bees foraging on flowers in the Brazilian Tropical Atlantic Rainforest. They also are the unique bee group concentrated ...

The presence of nectarless flowers in nectariferous plants is a widespread phenomenon in angiosperms. However, the frequency and distribution of nectarless flowers in natural populations, and the transition from nectariferous ...

In animal-pollinated hermaphroditic plants, optimal floral allocation determines relative investment into sexes, which is ultimately dependent on flower size. Larger flowers disproportionally increase maleness whereas ...

Flowering phenology may play a critical role in plant coexistence, allowing not only a temporal partitioning of resources but also conditioning the relationship between seed mass and number among species. We analyzed how ...

Inter-plant variability (i.e., differences between individuals within population) may be a significant and rather neglected source of variation for addressing the occurrence of secondary sexual dimorphism in plants, especially ...

Abstract: The secondary metabolism of plants plays a key role in plant–insect interactions. Among the various classes of metabolites produced, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) play important echophysiological roles, ...