Marlies Sazima

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied 86 species of hummingbird-pollinated flowers and their pollinators at a coastal lowland site and two highland rain forest sites in southeastern Brazil.

TL;DR: Estimating the relative importance of species abundance and forbidden links in structuring a hummingbird–plant interaction network from the Atlantic rainforest in Brazil suggests that species abundance can be a less important driver of species interactions in communities than previously thought.

TL;DR: It is shown that both white and red hummingbird-pollinated flowers differ from bee- pollinated flowers in their reflection properties for ultraviolet (UV) light.

TL;DR: A comparison between bat-pollinated plant assemblages at two sites in different altitudinal ranges covered by the Atlantic rainforest in southeastern Brazil is presented, finding similar values indicate that additional studies on bat- and bird- pollinated assemblaged species are merited at other AtlanticRainforest sites.

TL;DR: The results suggest that both ecological and evolutionary processes at Quaternary time scales can be important in driving large-scale geographical patterns of contemporary biotic specialization, at least for co-evolved systems such as plant-hummingbird networks.