A new approach to the quantification of degree of reciprocity in distylous (sensu lato) plant populations.
- J. M. Sánchez, V. Ferrero, L. Navarro
- BiologyAnnals of Botany
- 1 September 2008
The index of reciprocity proposed here is a sound alternative to previous indices: it compares stigma-stamen height gaps for all potential crosses in the population, it comprises stigma-Stamen distance as well as dispersion, it is not skewed by the more frequent sex, and it can be meaningfully compared between populations and species.
When did plants become important to leaf‐nosed bats? Diversification of feeding habits in the family Phyllostomidae
- D. Rojas, Á. Vale, V. Ferrero, L. Navarro
- BiologyMolecular Ecology
- 1 May 2011
It is proposed that during the evolution of phyllostomids switches to new feeding mechanisms to access to abundant and/or underexploited resources provided selective advantages that favoured the appearance of ecological innovations independently in different lineages of the family.
The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics
- D. Rojas, Á. Vale, V. Ferrero, L. Navarro
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 November 2012
This aim was to test whether diversification rates of New World Noctilionoidea bats are associated with specialization for frugivory, and how this pattern differs between the mainland and the West Indies.
Reciprocal style polymorphisms are not easily categorised: the case of heterostyly in Lithodora and Glandora (Boraginaceae).
- V. Ferrero, I. Chapela, J. Arroyo, L. Navarro
- BiologyPlant biology
- 2011
The prediction that flower traits as a whole respond to selective pressure to assure the exact location of pollen on the pollinator body is verified and most reciprocal populations and species, where between-morph pollen transfer is expected to be higher, would show greater integration.
Heterostyly and pollinators in Plumbago auriculata (Plumbaginaceae)
- V. Ferrero, C. Vega, G. Stafford, J. Staden, S. Johnson
- Biology
- 1 October 2009
Reproductive biology and success of invasive Australian acacias in Portugal
- Marta Correia, S. Castro, V. Ferrero, João A. Crisóstomo, S. Rodríguez‐Echeverría
- Environmental Science
- 1 April 2014
Acacia spp. were shown to be predominantly self-incompatible, but a low level of spontaneous selfing enabled the production of viable offspring, and self-progeny had lower viability than progeny from outcrossing for A.’sdealbata and A.melanoxylon.
Effect of invader removal: pollinators stay but some native plants miss their new friend
- V. Ferrero, S. Castro, Joana Costa, Paola Acuña, L. Navarro, J. Loureiro
- Environmental ScienceBiological Invasions
- 17 April 2013
The objective of this study was to assess the effect of removing Oxalis pes-caprae, an invasive weed widely spread in the Mediterranean basin, on plant–pollinator interactions and on the reproductive success of co-flowering native plants, and showed a highly resilient pollination network.
Stigma–anther reciprocity, pollinators, and pollen transfer efficiency in populations of heterostylous species of Lithodora and Glandora (Boraginaceae)
- V. Ferrero, S. Castro, J. M. Sanchez, L. Navarro
- Environmental SciencePlant Systematics and Evolution
- 1 February 2011
Results show a correlation between the degree of reciprocity and the efficiency of pollinators associated with the populations, which suggest that pollinators are a possible selective force driving the evolution of heterostyly.
Evolutionary transitions of style polymorphisms in Lithodora (Boraginaceae)
- V. Ferrero, J. Arroyo, P. Vargas, J. Thompson, L. Navarro
- Biology
- 2009
Unusual heterostyly: style dimorphism and self-incompatibility are not tightly associated in Lithodora and Glandora (Boraginaceae).
- V. Ferrero, J. Arroyo, S. Castro, L. Navarro
- BiologyAnnals of Botany
- 1 February 2012
The independent evolution of stylar polymorphism and incompatibility appears to have occurred in this group of plants, which refutes the canonical view that there is strong linkage between these reproductive traits.
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