Periodically taken photographs reveal the effect of pollinator insects on seed set in lotus flowers.

ABSTRACT: Understanding of pollination systems is an important topic for evolutionary ecology, food production, and biodiversity conservation. However, it is difficult to grasp the whole picture of an individual system, because the activity of pollinators fluctuates depending on the flowering period and time of day. In order to reveal effective pollinator taxa and timing of visitation to the reproductive success of plants under the complex biological interactions and fluctuating abiotic factors, we developed an automatic system to take photographs at 5-s intervals to get near-complete flower visitation by pollinators during the entire flowering period of selected flowers of Nelumbo nucifera and track the reproductive success of the same flowers until fruiting. Bee visits during the early morning hou

SUBMITTER: Nagai M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9273618 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature