Sentence examples for sets of pollinators from inspiring English sources

In many islands, entire sets of pollinators (and also seed dispersers) are disappearing due to alien invaders (e.g. [11], [12]) with negative consequences for most plants that depend upon them for regeneration [4].

Different sites have different sets of pollinators, creating the possibility to compare different coexistence patterns in different but overlapping sets of species.

With the flip of a single genetic switch, a flower can pull in a whole new set of pollinators.

It could also lead to increased redundancy (if flowers share diurnal and nocturnal pollinators), such that the plants in the network may be robust to the disruption of one set of pollinators (e.g. moths).

This chapter considers the importance of conserving pollinator diversity to maintain a suite of functional traits and provide a diverse set of pollinator services.

Pollination services in two of our plant species, which were pollinated by a limited sub-set of the pollinator community, indicated that pollination levels were highest in the burnt and mature pine habitats.

One variety of eggplant exhibited a significantly reduced seed set in absence of pollinators, and two varieties significantly increased seed numbers when pollen deposition was enhanced.

Each corresponds to a different group of pollinators (See Pollination).

A higher abundance and diversity of heterospecific co-flowering plants may attract higher numbers of pollinators, thereby facilitating pollination and seed set of the focal plant species [18], [19].

With this in mind, Rebecca Chaplandscaper, a landscapecologistst at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and colleagues set out to assess the importance of pollinators to global health by determining where pollination is most critical for the production of crops containing essential nutrients.

In such cases, the duration (Willmer 2011) and the beginning of anthesis (Aguilar-Rodríguez et al. 2015) are important floral attributes that can provide clues about the contribution, in terms of fruit and seed set, of the different groups of pollinators (nocturnal and diurnal).