@flowerlab.bsky.social
FLOWer Lab of the Centre for Functional Ecology of the University of Coimbra - Plant #Ecology and #Evolution (in particular #Polyploidy), #Pollination Services and #Agroecology led by João Loureiro and Sílvia Castro
O suspense acabou… 🤭 Já podemos revelar a data e o programa de inauguração da nova exposição do #PavilhaodoConhecimento: “SUPERBICHOS! Incríveis por Natureza”.
📢 Marquem na agenda: 24 de outubro, sexta-feira, a partir das 18.30. Entrada livre.
Programa: www.pavconhecimento.pt/exposicoes/s...
#OpenAccess
Flowering synchrony and cultivar compatibility as key factors for optimising sweet cherry pollination and production
🍒 doi.org/10.1111/aab....
🌸 It's essential to include compatibility & regional flower phenology in orchard design 🌸
@catarinasiopa.bsky.social @jloureiro13.bsky.social
Very proud to hear this wonderful talk by #SilviaCastro from @pollinet.bsky.social. 👏 #SPECO has been very well represented at @sibecol.bsky.social #congress
04.06.2025 15:23 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
The Dutch Grassland Butterfly indicator (www.clo.nl/indicatoren/...) shows a decline of more than 70%. It will be hard to achieve an increasing trend in 2030, as required in art 11 in the Nature Restoration Regulation (eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...).
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Las moscas florícolas (Syrphidae) son insectos altamente beneficiosos: mientras que los adultos polinizan, sus larvas contribuyen al reciclaje de la materia orgánica 🍂 o al control de plagas agrícolas.
Os dejo aquí una lámina genial con las especies del género Eristalis de la península ibérica 😉👇
How to create a #nature-literate society.
My latest article @theconversation.com
Revaluing naturalists' skills is essential for a future where we work with, not against, nature.
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Ontem foi um dia muito bonito! Obrigado a todos os envolvidos!
Visitem a exposição Pequenos Gigantes - Guardiões da Biodiversidade para ficarem a conhecer melhor alguns da diversidade de polinizadores que podem encontrar em Portugal através do olho e da lente do Albano Soares!
🌿 New publication with FLOWer Lab’s contribution!
With Sílvia Castro, led by Catarina Gomes from Madeira Botanical Group, this study on Musschia wollastonii reveals its mixed reproductive system—self-pollination and insect pollinators, mostly hoverflies and butterflies. Many act as pollen robbers!
🐝 New publication!
The chapter "Taxonomy of European Apoidea: Anthophila", by Hugo Gaspar (FLOWer Lab) & Simone Flaminio (Univ. of Mons), provides a practical guide to bee diversity & identification in Europe.
📖 Part of "Hidden and Wild: An Integrated Study of European Wild Bees". Read it 👇
Congratulations to Tiago Laranjo for successfully defending his MSc thesis in Ecology at UC! 🎓🌱
His research, "Contributions to the conservation of threatened plant species and their habitats in Serra do Caramulo", was supervised by Mariana Castro & António Gouveia!
Wishing you all the best! 🚀
Congratulations Andrés!!!!!!! Enjoy the moment!!!!
27.02.2025 12:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations Rafael Matos for the successful defense of your MSc in Ecology! His work "Reassessing changes in reproductive strategies and population structure of Oxalis pes-caprae in the invaded range" supervised by Sílvia Castro & Mariana Castro, brings new insights into invasive plant dynamics.
21.02.2025 18:17 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It's a match! Six-spot Burnet moth and Common Bird's-foot Trefoil have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Merveille du Jour and Oak have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Humming-bird Hawk-moth and Bedstraw have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
It's a match! Elephant Hawk-moth and Fuchsia have liked each other. Profile photos for each species with a pink heart icon between them. Pink 'Start planting' button below.
You complete my life-cycle 💕
One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants.
#MoonMeadows #MothsMatter
Huge congratulations @wilosterman.bsky.social for a very good viewpoint paper on @newphyt.bsky.social!
🎉 Dive into "The ecology of polyploid establishment and exclusion, with implications for polyploid biogeography" for a great read! 🔬📚👏
#polyploidy #plantsarefascinating
Sílvia Castro, co-PI of FLOWer Lab, participated yesterday in the round table organised by the Biology students association on the role of women in science, during the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🔬
#internationaldayofwomenandgirlsinscience
Thanks @curromolina.bsky.social for the nice words!
11.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks @ibartomeus.bsky.social!
11.02.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@hymenopterists.org.web.brid.gy @tettris.eu @pensoft.net @jloureiro13.bsky.social
11.02.2025 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🐝 New data on Portugal’s bees!
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra holds the largest historical bee collection in Portugal.
A new study by the FLOWer Lab reveals 13,374 records, 11,053 unpublished until now, covering 464 species, incl. 11 new to Portugal!
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/jhr....
The FLOWer Lab at #EcoFlor2025 (León, Spain, @ecoflor2025.bsky.social)!
🌱 Afonso Petronilho presented the oral communication: "Two congeneric Utricularia L. species with distinct reproductive strategies"
Exploring plant reproductive diversity in the fascinating aquatic carnivorous species.
Four people participating in a workshop writing on sticky notes.
Group photo of the PolinizAÇÃO project team in an outdoor patio with a tree in the background.
Bingo sheet about pollinators.
🎉Congratulations! The PolinizAÇÃO project wraps up its 7 participatory workshops, paving the way for an Action Plan to protect #pollinators in Portugal! A great collaboration between citizens & institutions. We’re proud to be part of it! Here's how it happened! 🐝🌿 @pollinet.bsky.social
10.02.2025 11:45 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
🌿 @jloureiro13.bsky.social was one of the speakers at dcv.talks this week! He presented "Through the citizens’ lenses: Plant-Pollinator Interactions on iNaturalist", showcasing how citizen science helps unveil plant-pollinator interactions. This initiative was launched by the PolinizAÇÃO project 🐝📸
05.02.2025 14:50 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Até já @catarinasiopa.bsky.social! Estamos sempre aqui para o que necessitares e o @flowerlab.bsky.social estará sempre de portas abertas para ti.
Boa sorte para esta nova etapa!
🌿🐝 New paper! Sílvia Castro, Sara Lopes, @catarinasiopa.bsky.social, @jloureiro13.bsky.social & Hugo Gaspar coauthored a study on EuPPollNet, Europe’s largest plant-pollinator network database! 🌍💡
Thanks @joseblanuza.bsky.social and @ibartomeus.bsky.social for the great coordination!
📖 Read it 👇
[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!
🌿 Sílvia Castro was Feb’s speaker of Sociedade Broteriana Talks! Sílvia Castro presented “Nothing is permanent except change: O. pes-caprae on the Mediterranean Basin”. She shared progress from COST ConservePlants initiative studying floral morphotypes & ploidy levels of invasive Bermuda buttercup.
30.01.2025 11:53 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sílvia Castro foi uma das palestrantes das dcv.talks da semana passada, onde apresentou os avanços da iniciativa à escala internacional de amostragem de Oxalis pes-caprae no âmbito da Ação COST ConservePlants, para o estudo dos morfotipos e níveis de ploidia desta espécie invasora no Mediterrâneo.
28.01.2025 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📚🐝 Discover the new book on the bees of Portugal!
The book "Chaves Dicotómicas dos Genneros de Abelhas de Portugal" has been published by the UC Press.
Coordinated by Hugo Gaspar from the FLOWer Lab, you can download the book in here (in PT): monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...
📚🐝 Descobre o novo livro sobre as abelhas de Portugal!
Foi publicado pela Imprensa da UC o livro “Chaves Dicotómicas dos Géneros de Abelhas de Portugal. Hymenoptera: Anthophila”!
Coordenado por Hugo Gaspar do @flowerlab.bsky.social descarreguem esta obra aqui: monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/...
