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List of works by Anton Pauw

A Bird's-Eye View of Pollination: Biotic Interactions as Drivers of Adaptation and Community Change

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Adaptation for rodent pollination in Leucospermum arenarium (Proteaceae) despite rapid pollen loss during grooming

scientific article published on 07 March 2014

Adaptive divergence in Darwin's race: how coevolution can generate trait diversity in a pollination system

scientific article published on 5 November 2012

Advances in the pollination biology of South African plants

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African sunbirds hover to pollinate an invasive hummingbird-pollinated plant

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Bird and insect pollinators differ in specialization and potential pollination services along disturbance and resource gradients

scientific article published in 2023

Can floral traits predict an invasive plant's impact on native plant-pollinator communities?

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Can pollination niches facilitate plant coexistence?

scientific article published on August 30, 2012

Collapse of a pollination web in small conservation areas

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Decreased insect visitation to a native species caused by an invasive tree in the Cape Floristic Region

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Does competition for pollinators contribute to structuringEricacommunities?

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ECQUID NOVI - ‘joernalistiek’ in die Romeinse Ryk en daarna

Easy technique for assessing pollination rates in the genus Erica reveals road impact on bird pollination in the Cape fynbos, South Africa

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Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Farming with native bees (Apis mellifera subsp. capensis Esch.) has varied effects on nectar-feeding bird communities in South African fynbos vegetation

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Flies and flowers in Darwin's race.

scientific article published in January 2009

Floral colour variation of <i>Nicotiana glauca</i> in native and non‐native ranges: Testing the role of pollinators' perception and abiotic factors

scientific article published in 2023

Floral divergence in closely related Leucospermum tottum (Proteaceae) varieties pollinated by birds and long-proboscid flies

article published in 2014

Floral syndromes accurately predict pollination by a specialized oil‐collecting bee (Rediviva peringueyi, Melittidae) in a guild of South African orchids (Coryciinae)

scientific article published on June 1, 2006

Fluff-thieving birds sabotage seed dispersal

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Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Global trends in the number and diversity of managed pollinator species

scientific article published on 11 September 2021

How do fynbos plant–pollinator communities respond to the loss of birds?

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Hyper-specialization for long-billed bird pollination in a guild of South African plants: the Malachite Sunbird pollination syndrome

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Importance of biotic niches versus drift in a plant‐inhabiting arthropod community depends on rarity and trophic group

scientific article published in 2019

Increasing importance of niche versus neutral processes in the assembly of plant-herbivore networks during succession

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Indigenous plants and artificial nectar sources facilitate urban adjustment of avian pollinators in Cape Town

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Interactions among predators and plant specificity protect herbivores from top predators.

scientific article published on 4 May 2018

Inversostyly: a new stylar polymorphism in an oil-secreting plant, Hemimeris racemosa (Scrophulariaceae).

scientific article published in November 2005

Long-legged bees make adaptive leaps: linking adaptation to coevolution in a plant-pollinator network.

scientific article published in September 2017

Mice pollinate the Pagoda Lily, Whiteheadia bifolia (Hyacinthaceae) — First field observations with photographic documentation of rodent pollination in South Africa

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Mutualism between co-occurring plant species in South Africa's Mediterranean climate heathland is mediated by birds.

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Mutualisms matter: pollination rate limits the distribution of oil-secreting orchids

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Orchid speciation and coexistence in the context of above and belowground mutualists

scientific article published in 2009

Parental care in a polygynous group of bat-eared foxes,Otocyon megalotis(Carnivora: Canidae)

scientific article published in 2000

Pink flower preference in sunbirds does not translate into plant fitness differences in a polymorphic Erica species

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Playing with extremes: Origins and evolution of exaggerated female forelegs in South African Rediviva bees.

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Pollen transfer on birds' tongues

scientific article published in Nature

Pollination, mating and reproductive fitness in a plant population with bimodal floral-tube length.

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Pollinators underestimated: a molecular phylogeny reveals widespread floral convergence in oil-secreting orchids (sub-tribe Coryciinae) of the Cape of South Africa

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Preliminary evidence that the long-proboscid fly, Philoliche gulosa, pollinates Disa karooica and its proposed Batesian model Pelargonium stipulaceum

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Pterygodium vermiferum (Coryciinae), a new, autonomously self-pollinating, oil-secreting orchid from the Western Cape of South Africa

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Reconstruction of historical pollination rates reveals linked declines of pollinators and plants

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Reduced flower visitation by nectar-feeding birds in response to fire in Cape fynbos vegetation, South Africa

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Reliability and quality of artificial nectar feeders for birds in the Cape Floristic Region

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Reproductive biology of Australian acacias: important mediator of invasiveness?

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Reproductive ecology of the bird-pollinated Nicotiana glauca across native and introduced ranges with contrasting pollination environments

scientific article published on 12 October 2019

Responses of nectar-feeding birds to floral resources at multiple spatial scales

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Reward quality predicts effects of bird-pollinators on the reproduction of African Protea shrubs

scientific article published in 2015

Scent chemistry is key in the evolutionary transition between insect and mammal pollination in African pineapple lilies

scientific article published on 10 February 2019

Self-compatibility is over-represented on islands

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Small and genetically highly structured populations in a long-legged bee, Rediviva longimanus, as inferred by pooled RAD-seq

scientific article published in 2018

The Least Effective Pollinator Principle: specialized morphology despite generalized ecology

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

The assembly and function of Cape plant communities in a changing world

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The cost of being specialized: Pollinator limitation in the endangered geophyte Brunsvigia litoralis (Amaryllidaceae) in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa

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The effects of above- and belowground mutualisms on orchid speciation and coexistence

scientific article published in February 2011

The scope of Baker's law

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Unrivalled specialization in a pollination network from South Africa reveals that specialization increases with latitude only in the Southern Hemisphere

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Urban nectarivorous bird communities in Cape Town, South Africa, are structured by ecological generalisation and resource distribution

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Urbanization Drives a Reduction in Functional Diversity in a Guild of Nectar-feeding Birds

scientific article published in 2012

Widespread vulnerability of flowering plant seed production to pollinator declines

scientific article published on 13 October 2021