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Field Experiments of Pollination Ecology: The Case of Lycoris sanguinea var. sanguinea
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Shining bright in the dusk: How do bat-pollinated flowers reflect light?
Arthur Domingos-Melo1, Vinícius Lourenço Garcia de Brito2, Alicia Sérsic3
1Department of Botany, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Ecology
|May 27, 2021
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