Claim · model-written summary
Dish-shaped leaf echoes were strong, multidirectional, and recognizable.
- Taxon
- Marcgravia evenia
Marcgravia eveniae1 - Organ / stage
- leafe0
- Interactor
- bat pollinatorse1pollinator
- Outcome
- echoese0
Not reportedDirection
Verbatim
e0“this leaf's echoes fulfilled requirements for an effective beacon, that is, they were strong, multidirectional, and had a recognizable invariant echo signature”
e1“vine Marcgravia evenia attracts bat pollinators”
Title
Floral Acoustics: Conspicuous Echoes of a Dish-Shaped Leaf Attract Bat Pollinators
Ralph Simon; Marc W. Holderied; Corinna U. Koch; et al. Science 2011. doi:10.1126/science.1204210
Other claims from this paper (1)
- Intervention effect Presence of the leaf halved flower-visiting bats’ foraging time.
