S. Johnson

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POLLINATION SUCCESS IN A DECEPTIVE ORCHID IS ENHANCED BY CO-OCCURRING REWARDING MAGNET PLANTS
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Results provide support for the existence of a facilitative magnet species effect in the interaction between certain nectar plants and A. morio at a site in Sweden.
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Reconnecting plants and pollinators: challenges in the restoration of pollination mutualisms.
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The pollination niche and its role in the diversification and maintenance of the southern African flora
  • S. Johnson
  • Environmental Science
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B…
  • 12 February 2010
TLDR
The evidence that disturbance provokes pollination failure in some southern African plants with specialized pollination systems is considered, to consider the risk of plant extinction.
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Evolutionary associations between nectar properties and specificity in bird pollination systems
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It is shown that the dichotomy between hummingbirds and passerine birds select for different nectar properties in the plants they pollinate is false and a more useful distinction is that between specialized and generalized bird pollination systems.
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Dark, bitter-tasting nectar functions as a filter of flower visitors in a bird-pollinated plant.
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The main effect of the phenolic compounds that impart a dark brown color to the nectar of the South African succulent shrub Aloe vryheidensis appears to be to repel "unwanted" nectarivores that find their bitter taste unpalatable.
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Darwin's beautiful contrivances: evolutionary and functional evidence for floral adaptation.
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A contrast between the inconsistent occurrence of phenotypic selection and convincing experimental and comparative evidence that floral traits are adaptations is revealed and suggests that the tempo of creative selection varies.
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POLLEN CARRYOVER, GEITONOGAMY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF DECEPTIVE POLLINATION SYSTEMS IN ORCHIDS
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The data indicated that the evolution of nectar production in deceptive Orchis species would result in moderate to high levels of geitonogamy, as a consequence of the greater number of flowers probed and longer visit duration by pollinators, however, the estimated levels were less than expected.
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Function and Evolution of Aggregated Pollen in Angiosperms
  • L. Harder, S. Johnson
  • Environmental Science
    International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • 1 January 2008
TLDR
The ability of orchid pollinia to reduce diminishing returns during pollination may explain both the floral diversity and the widespread occurrence of deceit pollination in this clade.
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The pollination ecology of an assemblage of grassland asclepiads in South Africa.
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Nestedness analysis of the data set showed that there was predictability and structure to the pattern of plant-pollinator interactions, with generalist insects visiting specialized plants and vice versa, and the research has shown that there is still much to be learned about plant- pollinator interactions in areas of high plant diversity such as South Africa.
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Reproductive biology of Australian acacias: important mediator of invasiveness?
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Invasive species respond quicker to disturbance than non-invasive taxa and are more commonly able to resprout, although only time to reproductive maturity was significant when phylogenetic relationships were controlled for.
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