Day And Night Visitors To Flowering Tree Canopies Of Southern Afrotemperate Forests, And What It Means

In this talk, Rudi Swart explains how the majority of Knysna forest trees have small white flowers, and are pollinated by insects. He shares his investigatigation of four of the white flowers to determine if pollination in the area is a generalist phenomenon or if there is room for specialisation.

Rudi dives into the process he followed while investigating this phenomenon and the observations he made about the pollinators pollinating these flowers. Rudi also questions what it would mean if there was pollinator sharing between fynbos over the ecotone into the forest canopy. 

Rudolph Swart is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nelson Mandela University. For his doctorate, he studied the interactions between indigenous southern Afrotemperate forest trees and arthropods within their canopies.