Claim · model-written summary
Shorter-billed hummingbirds extracted nectar and pollinated Aphelandra flowers.
- Taxon
- Aphelandra runcinata
Aphelandra runcinatat0 - Interactor
- hummingbirdsTrochilidaee0pollinator
- Outcome
- extract nectar and pollinate the flowerse0
- Qualifier
- much shorter billse0
Verbatim
e0“However, we observed that hummingbirds with much shorter bills were also able to extract nectar and pollinate the flowers.”
t0“Aphelandra runcinata”
Title
Carlos Rengifo; Luis Cornejo; Iván Akirov Journal of Tropical Ecology 2006. doi:10.1017/s0266467406003476
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Only Coeligena torquata among the reported species, together with C. eos, had bills sufficiently long for legitimate nectar access.
- Observation C. eos had bills sufficiently long for legitimate nectar access.
- Mechanism Reversible flower compression results from bird pressure opposed by the inflorescence.
- Mechanism Flower compression provides mutualistic advantages to plant and avian visitors.
- Mechanism Nectar access for short- and medium-billed species increases the spectrum of potential pollinators.
- Observation Nectar robbing by short-billed trochilids seems reduced.