Sentences with phrase «pollination biologist»
But Muchhala, a postdoc in the lab of pollination biologist James Thomson, thought it was the hummingbirds that looked wasteful.
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«Until the past five or ten years, people thought that exclusive pollination relationships were more common,» says Rachael Winfree, a pollination biologist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
«The expansion of these crops destroys habitat for bees,» says Marcelo Aizen, a pollination biologist at the National University of Comahue in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.
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The result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.
Until recently, most biologists thought that long - distance pollination occurred only rarely, with fewer than one plant in a hundred having parents separated by more than 100 metres, says Norman Ellstrand, a plant population geneticist at the University of California at Riverside.