Volume 11, Issue 3

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June 2017

Special Issue: Bees and flowers, an old love story

Issue Editors:

Isabel Alves-dos-Santos,
Isabel Cristina Machado

20 articles in this issue

Bees and flowers, an old love story
Isabel Alves-dos-Santos
Isabel Cristina Machado
Editorial 05 May 2017 Pages: 241 - 242
Charles D. Michener (1918–2015): a life among the bees
Michael S. Engel
Original Paper 03 March 2017 Pages: 243 - 247
Stefan Vogel (1925–2015): Reflections on his work and life
Regine Claßen-Bockhoff
Original Paper 25 February 2017 Pages: 249 - 255
Specialist bees collect Asteraceae pollen by distinctive abdominal drumming (Osmia) or tapping (Melissodes, Svastra)
James H. Cane
Original Paper 28 November 2016 Pages: 257 - 261
Bee pollination and evidence of substitutive nectary in Anadenanthera colubrina (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae)
Laís Angélica Borges
Isabel Cristina Machado
Ariadna Valentina Lopes
Original Paper 09 April 2017 Pages: 263 - 271
Comparing the efficiency of pollination mechanisms in Papilionoideae
Trinidad Figueroa Fleming
Ángela Virginia Etcheverry
Original Paper 11 April 2017 Pages: 273 - 283
Floral divergence and temporal pollinator partitioning in two synchronopatric species of Vigna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae)
Jana Magaly Tesserolli de Souza
Cristiane Snak
Isabela Galarda Varassin
Original Paper 07 March 2017 Pages: 285 - 297
Does hardness make flower love less promiscuous? Effect of biomechanical floral traits on visitation rates and pollination assemblages
Silvina A. Córdoba
Andrea A. Cocucci
Original Paper 10 March 2017 Pages: 299 - 305
Division of labor of anthers in heterantherous plants: flexibility of bee pollen collection behavior may serve to keep plants honest
Daniel R. Papaj
Stephen L. Buchmann
Avery L. Russell
Original Paper 17 February 2017 Pages: 307 - 315
Sex and breeding behaviour of the Sicilian snail-shell bee (Rhodanthidium siculum Spinola, 1838; Apoidea–Megachilidae): preliminary results
Claudia Erbar
Peter Leins
Original Paper 03 January 2017 Pages: 317 - 328
Flowers as sleeping places for male bees: somehow the males know which flowers their females prefer
Mardiore Pinheiro
Isabel Alves-dos-Santos
Marlies Sazima
Original Paper 08 May 2017 Pages: 329 - 337
Complex flowers and rare pollinators: Does ant pollination in Ditassa show a stable system in Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae)?
Arthur Domingos-Melo
Tarcila de Lima Nadia
Isabel Cristina Machado
Original Paper 23 February 2017 Pages: 339 - 349
Do 120,000 years of plant–pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models
M. Sosa-Pivatto
A. Cosacov
A. N. Sérsic
Original Paper 27 December 2016 Pages: 351 - 361
Interpopulation variation in pollinators and floral scent of the lady’s-slipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus L.
Herbert Braunschmid
Bernadette Mükisch
Stefan Dötterl
Original Paper Open access 09 April 2017 Pages: 363 - 379
Flower scent bouquet variation and bee pollinator visits in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (Asteraceae), a source of natural sweeteners
Giovanni Benelli
Angelo Canale
Luciana G. Angelini
Original Paper 17 February 2017 Pages: 381 - 388
Is the maximum reproductive rate of Centris analis (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Centridini) associated with floral resource availability?
Cláudia Inês da Silva
Carolina Mayumi Hirotsu
Carlos Alberto Garófalo
Original Paper 13 April 2017 Pages: 389 - 402
Bee visitors of Centaurea solstitialis L. (Asteraceae) in an urban environment in northwestern Turkey
Victor H. Gonzalez
Alena Olsen
John Barthell
Original Paper 12 April 2017 Pages: 403 - 409
Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators
P. G. Willmer
H. Cunnold
G. Ballantyne
Original Paper Open access 06 May 2017 Pages: 411 - 425
Pollen and stamen mimicry: the alpine flora as a case study
Klaus Lunau
Sabine Konzmann
Zong-Xin Ren
Original Paper Open access 12 April 2017 Pages: 427 - 447
Long-term yield trends of insect-pollinated crops vary regionally and are linked to neonicotinoid use, landscape complexity, and availability of pollinators
Heikki M. T. Hokkanen
Ingeborg Menzler-Hokkanen
Maaria Keva
Original Paper 21 April 2017 Pages: 449 - 461

Volume 11, Issue 3

Bees and flowers, an old love story

Charles D. Michener (1918–2015): a life among the bees

Stefan Vogel (1925–2015): Reflections on his work and life

Specialist bees collect Asteraceae pollen by distinctive abdominal drumming (Osmia) or tapping (Melissodes, Svastra)

Bee pollination and evidence of substitutive nectary in Anadenanthera colubrina (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae)

Comparing the efficiency of pollination mechanisms in Papilionoideae

Floral divergence and temporal pollinator partitioning in two synchronopatric species of Vigna (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae)

Does hardness make flower love less promiscuous? Effect of biomechanical floral traits on visitation rates and pollination assemblages

Division of labor of anthers in heterantherous plants: flexibility of bee pollen collection behavior may serve to keep plants honest

Sex and breeding behaviour of the Sicilian snail-shell bee (Rhodanthidium siculum Spinola, 1838; Apoidea–Megachilidae): preliminary results

Flowers as sleeping places for male bees: somehow the males know which flowers their females prefer

Complex flowers and rare pollinators: Does ant pollination in Ditassa show a stable system in Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae)?

Do 120,000 years of plant–pollinator interactions predict floral phenotype divergence in Calceolaria polyrhiza? A reconstruction using species distribution models

Interpopulation variation in pollinators and floral scent of the lady’s-slipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus L.

Flower scent bouquet variation and bee pollinator visits in Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni (Asteraceae), a source of natural sweeteners

Is the maximum reproductive rate of Centris analis (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Centridini) associated with floral resource availability?

Bee visitors of Centaurea solstitialis L. (Asteraceae) in an urban environment in northwestern Turkey

Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators

Pollen and stamen mimicry: the alpine flora as a case study

Long-term yield trends of insect-pollinated crops vary regionally and are linked to neonicotinoid use, landscape complexity, and availability of pollinators

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