Why Are So Many Bird Flowers Red?
Open Access
- 12 October 2004
- journal article
- unsolved mystery
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 2 (10) , e350
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020350
Abstract
Are bird-pollinated flowers red because bees - which might rob the flower of its nectar - cannot easily detect them, or might it be because of more subtle evolutionary trade-offs?Keywords
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