#FlowerTraits

Journal of Plant Ecology

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9 months ago

Surface temperature was estimated from thermal imaging pictures taken along transect lines for each flower or flower unit under natural sunlight (red) and artificial shade (gray), plotted in relation to the absolute distance from the center to the edge of a flower or a flower unit.

Relative locations of the minimums (left) and the maximums (right) of observed surface temperature along each transect line within a flower or a flower unit under natural sunlight (white background) and artificial shade (gray background).

【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Flower surface is warmer in center than at edges in alpine plants: evidence from #Qinghai-TibetanPlateau

#FlowerShape | #FlowerTraits | #ReproductiveSuccess | #ThermalPattern

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Journal of Plant Ecology

@jpecol.bsky.social

10 months ago

Flower surface is warmer in center than at edges in alpine plants: evidence from Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Abstract. Although flower temperature plays an important role in plant reproduction, how it varies spatially on the flower surface is unclear, especially i

Discovery from Yan Zhang et al. in #Qinghai-TibetanPlateau:
1️⃣ Flower temperature is generally higher in the center, particularly under sunlight.
2️⃣ Solar radiation is essential for higher thermal accumulation and stability in the flower center.
#FlowerShape #FlowerTraits
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