Community Ecology | Evolutionary Ecology | Theoretical Ecology
I am a researcher (“chargé de recherche”) at CNRS, based in the Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station (Station d’Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale, SETE) in Moulis, France.
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🆕 Nectar robbing: what push birds to rob flowers?
👉https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11552
In tropical pollination networks, flowerpiercers are often seen as robbers and hummingbirds as legitimate pollinators but here we show that it is not so black and white. Both groups of birds pollinate flowers in a legitimate way when flower and bir dmorphologies are compatibel (bill < corolla) and when morphologies are compatible (corolla > bill), both groups shift to robbing, although flowerpiercers shift faster than hummingbirds.