Claim · model-written summary
Reduced seed set suggests lower Bombus ardens pollination quality.
- Taxon
- Corydalis ambigua
Corydalis ambiguae1 - Interactor
- B. ardens
Bombus ardense0pollinator - Outcome
- reduced seed sete0
- Qualifier
- decreases in visiting time per flowere0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“reduced seed set implies a reduction in the pollination quality by B. ardens, probably due to decreases in visiting time per flower”
t0“NATIVE PLANT REPRODUCTION”
e1“Corydalis ambigua, a native plant in Hokkaido, Japan”
Title
ALIEN BUMBLE BEE AFFECTS NATIVE PLANT REPRODUCTION THROUGH INTERACTIONS WITH NATIVE BUMBLE BEES
Ikumi Dohzono; Yoko Kawate Kunitake; Jun Yokoyama; et al. Ecology 2008. doi:10.1890/07-1491.1
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Observation The plant is self incompatible and requires bumble bee visits for effective seed production.
- Observation Three bumble bee species frequently visited the plant.
- Observation Bombus ardens consumed nectar legitimately.
- Observation Bombus hypocrita robbed nectar by perforating spurs.
- Observation Bombus terrestris robbed nectar by perforating spurs.
- Observation Bombus ardens produced fruit and seeds more efficiently than nectar robbers.
- Observation The proportion of robbed flowers increased over flowering at three sites.
- Observation Open pollination produced fewer seeds than cross pollination at pollen limited sites.
- Association Bombus ardens visited fewer flowers in inflorescences with more robbed flowers.
- Mechanism Nectar robbing may lower Bombus ardens visits and fruit set.
- Observation Bombus terrestris had nonzero pollination efficiency.