Claim · model-written summary
The swift parrot carried significantly more eucalypt pollen within 22 mm of its bill tip than the New Holland honeyeater.
- Taxon
- Eucalyptus globulus
Eucalyptus globuluse0 - Interactor
- L. discolor
Lathamus discolore1pollinator - Second interactor
- Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
Phylidonyris novaehollandiaee2pollinator - Outcome
- eucalypt pollene1
- Direction
- significantly moree1
- Qualifier
- within 22 mm of its bill tipe1
- Comparator
- the New Holland honeyeatere1
Verbatim
e0“flowers of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. ssp. globulus (Myrtaceae)”
e1“L. discolor carried significantly more eucalypt pollen within 22 mm of its bill tip than did the New Holland honeyeater”
e2“Phylidonyris novaehollandiae”
t0“Lathamus discolor”
Title
ANDREW B. HINGSTON; BRETT D. GARTRELL; GINA PINCHBECK Austral Ecology 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01397.x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Pollen of the swift parrot was concentrated on the head regions that consistently contact stigmas.
- Mechanism Larger pollen loads on the swift parrot are attributed to its consumption of both pollen and nectar.
- Association The swift parrot has a greater capacity than honeyeaters to deposit pollen on Eucalyptus globulus stigmas.
- Mechanism The short thick bill of the swift parrot necessitates regular stigmatic contact.
- Observation The association between Eucalyptus globulus and the swift parrot is only moderately specialized.
- Observation The characteristics that make the swift parrot an effective pollinator are also exhibited by a lorikeet.