Fig. 3
Contact directions with bodies of pollinating bats generated by different floral morphologies of plants from chiropterophilous guild in PARNA Catimbau, Northeast Brazil. (Upper) Directions of approach (white arrows) of the reproductive structures of the flowers on the bodies of nectar-feeding bats during the floral visit, here exemplified in the Glossophaga soricina (Glossophaginae-Phyllostomidae) as an example. The labeled plant species include (ordered by the proximity of contact of structures on the bats' body): (A) Ceiba glaziovii, (B) Dyckia spectabilis, (C) Pilosocereus catimbauensis, (D) P. pachycladus, (E) Xiquexique gounellei, (F) X. tuberculatus, (G) Mimosa lewisii, (H) Pilosocereus catingicola, (I) Ipomoea vespertilia, (J) Bauhinia acuruana, (K) B. pentandra, (L) Helicteres baruensis, (M) Hymenaea cangaceira, (N) Calliandra aeschynomenoides, (O) Neocalyptrocalyx longifolium, (P) Cynophalla flexuosa, (Q) Pseudobombax marginatum, (R) Lafoensia glyptocarpa, (S) Tarenaya longicarpa, (T) Harpochilus neesianus. (Bottom) NMDS analysis (stress = 0.017) comparing different pollen deposition strategies based on floral morphological attributes