Oh! I did not realise that. William inform the journal about it.. @biotropica.bsky.social

❤️ I know!!!
Really a very good reason to bring your good work to @biotropica.bsky.social and support #ATBC !

Also, check out the abstract in Tamil by using the toggle option!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bt…

A small step towards makin#sciencece more accessible

@vinita_gowda @TrEE_La#ScienceForAlll#BirdResearchch
Read: researchmatters.in/news/urban-str��� to deep-dive!

Bottom line:
Even in highly seasonal habitats, synchrony is rare! Except for the mass-flowering species that dominate the landscape.
This work sets the stage for further long-term phenology & pollination studies in India’s fragile lateritic plateaus.

breathtaking “super bloom” landscapes Kaas is famous for.
💧Flowering strongly linked to water availability & rainfall patterns (including lag effects).
🐝 Plant–pollinator networks shifted with flowering peaks, highlighting dynamic interactions in this short but intense season.

We developed 2 synchrony indices that capture synchrony in time & abundance, and observed pollinator interactions.
We found that:
🌸Overall, flowering was surprisingly asynchronous—likely due to competition for pollinators.
💐But ~30% of species showed mass flowering, driving the

Edited from Saket's X tweet/Xweet!
We studied the phenology of 76 herb. spp. on the Kaas plateau, Western Ghats, India, for over 3 yrs.

We asked:
🌼Do plants in this seasonal sky-island community flower in synchrony?
🐝Does the plant-pollinator network remain stable across the flowering season?

The abstract in Hindi:
treelab.wixsite.com/tree/hindi-a...

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Paper flowers. #Mescal in grande size ONLY! Everyday invasive is a native somewhere.
The red walls highlight the contrast in colors at #Mitla
#Mictlan in #Nahuatl probably from #cochineal that live on #Opuntia & are the source of #carmine !!!
#amazingZapotecs #IKS #IndigenousKnowledgeSysrems

Also, enough about the selective understanding of the global south issues in science, which seems to disappear when one is NOT a collaborator!

One more..
Reviewers - I think you should get XYZ data, although it may not be relevant to this paper, and should be in a different paper.
(!!)

Me - 👇🏾