TYE , Alan

: Galapagos is a natural laboratory offering a great opportunity to study plants functional traits. This study characterises morphological and ecophysiological responses of Croton scouleri, an endemic tree that habits from humid and upper elevations to semiarid lowlands, throughout an altitudinal gradient and in a manipulative experiment....

Linnaeus (Crit. Bot.: 77. 1737) coined the genus name "Bosea" to honor Caspar Bose (1645–1700), who owned a famous garden in Leipzig ("Bose Senator Lipsiensis"). Later Linnaeus (Hort. Cliff.: 84. 1738) spelled the name as "Bosia", provided a description and referenced earlier works, viz., Plukenet (Almagestum: 42. 1696), Sloane (Cat. Pl....

Measurements of nectar volume and sugar concentration along two elevational gradients, in flower exclusion experiments, and over a diurnal cycle of nectar production, were compared for invasive Lantana camara and endemic Lantana peduncularis in the Galápagos Islands during the dry season. Both species show the same pollination syndrome and...