Tag: specialization

• Plants as Food

  Ecological Function #1 Plants as Food: Nectar is an important food source for insects such as butterflies and bees and for some birds such as hummingbirds. As these animals reach deep into a flower where the nectaries are often located, they also perform an essential service for the plant: pollination. Thus, through millennia of co-evolution…

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  November 23, 2022

  Ecological Functions

  defensive chemicals, Ecological Functions, food, food web, herbal medicine, nectar, phenology, pollinators, refugia, spatial refugia, specialization