Claim · model-written summary
The position of pollinaria on bee bodies was variable across orchid species.
- Taxon
- each orchid speciese6
- Interactor
- beesAnthophilae6pollinator
- Outcome
- the position of the pollinariae6
- Qualifier
- was also variablee6
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
t0“euglossinophylic epiphytic orchids”
e6“There was little indication of pollinator specificity and the position of the pollinaria of each orchid species on the bodies of the bees was also variable”
Title
Anne Damon; Fabiola Hernández-Ramírez; Laura Riggi; et al. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 2012. doi:10.14712/23361964.2015.34
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- Observation Pollinaria of 18 orchid species were carried by 11.5% of the trapped bees.
- Observation Three Eufriesia bee species were recorded for the first time in the orchid pollination system.
- Observation Eulaema meriana was the pollinator of Plectrophora alata.
- Association Euglossini bees were even more frequent in intensive coffee plantations.
- Observation Many orchid species were frequent in intensive coffee plantations, a habitat classed as disturbed.
- Observation No habitat preferences were detected for Euglossini bees.
- Association Bees tended to be more abundant with increasing light intensity.
- Association Bees tended to be more abundant with decreasing humidity.
- Observation There was little indication of pollinator specificity.
- Observation No pollinaria were recovered from various epiphytic orchid species in the region.
- Observation Three bee species showed signs of population decline.
- Observation Many orchid species with this pollination syndrome are receiving pollination service in a fragmented and disturbed environment.
- Mechanism Orchids and bees are suggested to be adapting to the changes.