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Dissecting pollinator responses to a ubiquitous ultraviolet floral pattern in the wild

2014-08-01

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Colour patterns on flowers can increase pollinator visitation and enhance foraging behaviour. Flowers uniform in colour to humans, however, can appear patterned to insects due to spatial variation in UV reflectance on petals. A UV ‘bullseye’ pattern that is common among angiosperms – UV‐absorbing petal bases and UV‐reflective apices – purportedly functions as a nectar guide, enhancing pollinator orientation and ex...

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Literature Corpus work: 5f0a0657-8125-51f1-a002-9ef5820ca5bb
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12242

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