Flowering Phenology and the Influence of Seasonality in Flower Conspicuousness for Bees.

ABSTRACT: Flowering patterns are crucial to understand the dynamics of plant reproduction and resource availability for pollinators. Seasonal climate constrains flower and leaf phenology, where leaf and flower colors likely differ between seasons. Color is the main floral trait attracting pollinators; however, seasonal changes in the leaf-background coloration affect the perception of flower color contrasts by pollinators. For a seasonally dry woody cerrado community (Brazilian savanna) mainly pollinated by bees, we verified whether seasonality affects flower color diversity over time and if flower color contrasts of bee-pollinated species differ between seasons due to changes in the leaf-background coloration. For 140 species, we classified flower colors based on human-color vision, and for 99 spec

SUBMITTER: Martins AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7921784 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature