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Carlos Lara

Researcher at Autonomous University of Tlaxcala

Publications -  124
Citations -  1860

Carlos Lara is an academic researcher from Autonomous University of Tlaxcala. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hummingbird & Nectar. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 112 publications receiving 1432 citations. Previous affiliations of Carlos Lara include National Autonomous University of Mexico & Catholic University of the North.

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The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks

Ana M. Martín González, +40 more
TL;DR: Higher levels of specialization and modularity were associated with species-rich communities and communities in which closely related hummingbirds visited distinct sets of flowering species, indicating a tighter co-evolutionary association between hummingbirds and their plants than in previously studied plant–bird mutualistic systems.
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Preferential nectar robbing of flowers with long corollas: experimental studies of two hummingbird species visiting three plant species.

Carlos Lara, +1 more
- 01 Jul 2001 - 
TL;DR: It is suggested that short-billed hummingbirds with enlarged bill serrations (the edge of both tomia finely toothed) may have an advantage in illegitimately feeding at long-corolla flowers, raising the possibility of counter-selection on increasing corolla length by nectar robbers.
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Temporal dynamics of flower use by hummingbirds in a highland temperate forest in Mexico

TL;DR: It is suggested that the availability and quality of resources can explain the temporal and spatial composition of the hummingbird community on a local scale.
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Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

Thais B. Zanata, +58 more
TL;DR: As expected, hummingbirds and their floral resources have greater interaction specialization than honeyeaters, possibly because of greater phenotypic specialization and greater floral resource richness in the New World.