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Handling time of visiting bees to a hermaphroditic and b female flowers of Coryphantha elephantidens. Different letters indicate different groups formed according to the Tukey’s test following the GLM. NI bees categorized as not identified
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Bee species interact differently with flowers, playing different roles in pollination. For gynodioecious plant populations, which consist of two sexes (female-non-pollen-producing flowers and hermaphroditic flowers), bee–flower interactions also have ecological implications, including the maintenance of females. We evaluated bee performance on a gy...
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