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The importance of winter-flowering Aloe ferox for specialist and generalist nectar-feeding birds

Timothy R. KuiperDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.Correspondence[email protected]
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Diane L. SmithDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
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Milena H. L. WolmaransDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
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Sara S. JonesDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.;Institut für Natur und Ressourcenschutz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein24118, Germany.
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Ross W. ForbesDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
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Patrick E. HulleyDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
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Adrian J. F. K. CraigDepartment of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa.
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Pages 49-57 | Received 29 May 2014, Accepted 18 Sep 2014, Published online: 22 Dec 2016

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Bo T Bonnevie, Adrian JFK Craig, Pat E Hulley, Albert Schultz & Anthony J Tree. (2023) Wing-moult and seasonal occurrence of sunbirds (Nectariniidae) captured at four sites in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Ostrich 94:4, pages 304-314.
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Kaylee van den Bosch, Simon van Noort & Glynis V. Cron. (2019) Predation of fruit and seed of Aloe pretoriensis – A little known effect on reproductive output in aloes . Austral Ecology 44:4, pages 621-634.
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Stephanie L. Payne, Ed T. F. Witkowski & Craig T. Symes. (2019) Good times, bad times: inter-annual reproductive output in a montane endemic succulent (Aloe peglerae; Asphodelaceae) driven by contrasting visitor responses of small mammals and birds. Australian Journal of Botany 67:2, pages 116.
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Craig T. Symes. (2017) Notes on the flowering and pollination of the endemic grassland Aloe reitzii var. reitzii (Asphodelaceae). Bothalia 47:1.
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Stephanie L. Payne, Craig T. Symes & Ed T.F. Witkowski. (2016) Of feathers and fur: Differential pollinator roles of birds and small mammals in the grassland succulent Aloe peglerae . Austral Ecology 41:8, pages 952-963.
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