Alessandro Fisogni

TL;DR: Intra-flower self-pollination is prevented in D. albus by protandry and herkogamy, while the nectar-induced sequential pattern of pollinator visits avoids geitonogamy and tends to maximise pollen export, promoting outcrossing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the response of the timing of flowering of native plants and of the flight period of wild pollinators to increased urbanization. And they found that these asymmetric responses can drive modifications in the structure of plant-pollinator networks, and potentially negatively affect the fitness of both mutualistic partners.

TL;DR: It is argued that genetic rescue represents a promising conservation management strategy to avoid inevitable long-term future population decline in small populations fragmented by human activities and which show an absence of fruit production.

TL;DR: It is found that diapause survival is negatively affected by mating and by the low pre-diapause weight, but first egg deposition and development of the first adult worker were delayed in heavy queens.

TL;DR: An index of Pollinator Performance (PoP), based on insect visitation rate and cross-pollen transport efficiency, is introduced, confirming the high degree of pollinator-generalization of the study species G. lutea L.