North by northwest: Are unilateral cephalium-bearing cacti bio-compasses?

Sinzinando Albuquerque-Lima; Daniela C Zappi; Nigel P Taylor; Martin Lowry; Mats Winberg; Isabel Cristina Machado

doi:10.1002/ecy.4058

North by northwest: Are unilateral cephalium-bearing cacti bio-compasses?

Ecology. 2023 Jul;104(7):e4058. doi: 10.1002/ecy.4058. Epub 2023 May 5.

Authors

Sinzinando Albuquerque-Lima¹, Daniela C Zappi², Nigel P Taylor³, Martin Lowry⁴, Mats Winberg⁵, Isabel Cristina Machado¹

Affiliations

¹ Pos-Graduate Program in Plant Biology, Laboratory of Floral and Reproductive Biology, Botany Department, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
² Secretaria da Coordenação de Pós-Graduação em Botânica, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil.
³ University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar Botanic Gardens campus, The Alameda, Gibraltar.
⁴ Independent Researcher, Cheshire, UK.
⁵ Independent Researcher, Skogstorp, Sweden.

PMID: 37078705
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4058

No abstract available

Keywords: Cactaceae; Cereeae; Coleocephalocereus; Espostoopsis; Micranthocereus; Pilosocereus; Vatricania; Xiquexique; bat pollination; cephalium orientation; hummingbird.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cactaceae*
Flowers
Pollination

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.21967433.v1