1. Pollen couriers across the Mediterranean: the case of migrating warblers.
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Cecere, Jacopo G., Cornara, Laura, Mezzetta, Serena, Ferri, Andrea, Spina, Fernando, and Boitani, Luigi
- Abstract
The article explores the role of migrating warblers in pollination. Warblers are known nectarivores and in their every stop to sip nectars, pollen grains are attached to their bodies. The warblers at Ventotene Island of Italy was used to observe their stop-over behaviors during spring migration and the flowering plants F. communis (Apiaceae) and Brassica sp. (Brassicaceae) was observed for its seasonal flowering patterns. Garden Warbler S. borin and Common Whitethroat S. communis were found to carry the pollen of F. communis while Eurasian Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla and Subalpine Warbler S. cantillans land with Brassica sp. pollens.
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- 2011
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