Bio-Interactions Lab @BioInteractLab
Situated in the heart of fynbos, we study evolutionary and ecological interactions between organisms and their variations across landscapes. bandersobruce.wixsite.com/website Stellenbosch, South Africa Joined May 2016-
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The Most Effective Pollinator Principle is a caricature of floral divergence. Adaptive landscapes can offer a more nuanced depiction of floral divergence that recognizes the fitness contributions of all visitors, not just the ones we think are important. academic.oup.com/aob/advance-ar…
Here is a media release for our new paper about explosive pollination and male male competition in flowers eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
Sujay Sanan - one of favourite biological artists has a new exhibition coming soon. sujaysanan.com instagram @sujaysanan
Mario Vallejo-Marin and his team have just released a great study contrasting pollen fates of 2 different buzz pollinated plants (with fused and unfused anthers). doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
Pollen Wars: explosive pollination removes pollen deposited by previously visited flowers Check out the early view publication in Am Nat journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… and the video below
Some pollen is for loving, but some is for fighting: Check out this popular article explaining how explosive pollination is used to remove the pollen of rival flowers from the bills of hummingbird pollinators sciencenews.org/article/projec…
It bites down on the upper peal of a flower when it lands, scrapes the oil from the flower and stores it in the dense hairs of its hind legs
Found a little family of burrowing owls hanging out on the street corner. Someone even built them a little house
Also home to the largest living rodent. ..capybaras roam the shoreline of the lake munching on shoreline vegetation. They get over a meter long and weigh up to 70kg
Curious terrapins in an urban park in Uberlandia, Brazil
Allan Ellis is well known for his work on mimicry, crypsis and deception journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10… Here, he ttempts to hide among the daisies with his yellow t-shirt. But his students are not easily fooled!
This year the Nobel prize for chemistry was awarded to the researchers who discovered and made quantum dots accessible to applied sciences nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist… What better time to apply quantum dots to biological research
Congratulations to Sam McCarren who won best session presentation at the 12th International Symposium on Pollination (ISPXII) for his talk: Fire maintains coexistence of divergent flower forms
Enantiostyly making styles go opposite directions but bringing scientists together at @Grootbos
This is so cool!

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