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- Title
It's raining fragrant nectar in the Caatinga: evidence of nectar olfactory signaling in bat‐pollinated flowers.
- Authors
Domingos‐Melo, Arthur; Milet‐Pinheiro, Paulo; Navarro, Daniela Maria do Amaral Ferraz; Lopes, Ariadna Valentina; Machado, Isabel Cristina
- Abstract
It's raining fragrant nectar in the Caatinga: evidence of nectar olfactory signaling in bat-pollinated flowers The physiology of bat-pollinated flowers is particularly striking because the flowers secrete large amounts of nectar and emit peculiar odors (Fleming et al. [2]). To measure nectar production, we first quantified the total volume produced and the concentration of nectar in individual flowers ( I n i = 100 flowers; 10 flowers per individual). To characterize the nectar scent, we collected separate samples of volatile compounds emitted only by flowers without nectar ( I n i = 10 samples, each one collected from three to five flowers, from which we have completely removed the nectar) and only by nectar ( I n i = 10 samples, each one with the nectar we had been removed from the previously mentioned flowers).
- Subjects
POLLINATION; NECTAR; POLLINATORS; FLOWERS; CAATINGA plants; TROPICAL dry forests; PLANT classification
- Publication
Ecology, 2020, Vol 101, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecy.2914