{"id":545292,"date":"2025-04-15T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=545292"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:44:17","slug":"hurricane-decimates-pollinating-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/hurricane-decimates-pollinating-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane decimates pollinating hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_545293\" style=\"max-width: 1150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545293 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-nota-beija-flor-2024-09-1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-nota-beija-flor-2024-09-1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-nota-beija-flor-2024-09-1140-250x147.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-nota-beija-flor-2024-09-1140-700x413.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-nota-beija-flor-2024-09-1140-120x71.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Andrew Peacock\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span>The purple-throated carib among heliconias: now replaced by other species<span class=\"media-credits\">Andrew Peacock\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two types of heliconia\u2014plants with ornate red and orange flowers in the same family as the banana\u2014found on the Caribbean island of Dominica had just one pollinator: a hummingbird known as a purple-throated carib (Eulampis jugularis). In September 2017, however, three-quarters of the bird\u2019s population was wiped out by Hurricane Maria, which also destroyed buildings, caused power outages, and killed 33 residents in the region. The result was a change in the plant\u2019s reproduction cycle, according to a study by an international group that includes Brazilian ecologists Mauro Galetti of S\u00e3o Paulo State University (UNESP) and Fernando Gon\u00e7alves, who is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After the hurricane, the team observed four other bird species visiting the flowers. Fears of the hummingbird going extinct were allayed. \u201cIt\u2019s not always simple\u2014the phenomenon breaks the coadaptive relationship, meaning other individuals can pollinate the plant, taking over from species that have declined,\u201d Gon\u00e7alves told Ag\u00eancia Bori. \u201cThe evolutionary trajectory can fluctuate. It is not as restricted as we thought.\u201d Now, the group intends to evaluate the impacts of natural phenomena on the evolutionary behavior of other species. \u201cWe are monitoring other hurricanes in the region so that we can visit and understand the consequences\u201d (New Phytologist, July 11; Ag\u00eancia Bori, July 12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricane decimates population of hummingbirds that pollinate plants on Caribbean island","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,213,224,231],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-545292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-botany","tag-ecology","tag-evolution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545302,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545292\/revisions\/545302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545292"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=545292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}