Peer reviewed publications
2026 Almansa FG, Melo LRF, Vallejo-Marin M. Intra-individual variation in pollen availability: An experimental analysis of its impact on plant-pollinator interactions. Annals of Botany https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag073
2025 Oliveira LC, Brito VLG, Lunau K, Gerten S, Oliveira PEM, Melo LRF, Telles FJ, Bergamo PJ. Evolution of UV-reflection in bee- and bird-pollinated flowers. Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70138
2024 Anderson B, Sabino-Oliveira AC, Matallana-Puerto CA, Arvelos CA, Novaes CS, Cario DC, Schulze-Albuquerque I, Santos JPP, Borges JO, Melo LRF, Consorte PM, Medina-Benavides S, Oliveira TA, Monteiro TR, Varcelo VG, Silva VHD, Oliveira PE, Brito VLG. Pollen Wars: Explosive Pollination Removes Pollen Deposited from Previously Visited Flowers. The American Naturalist. Dec 204(6):616-625.: https://doi.org/10.1086/732797
2024 Reginato M, Ordónez-parra CA, Messeder JVS, Brito VLG, Dellinger A, Kriebel R, Melo LRF, et al. MelastomaTRAITs 1.0: A Database of Functional Traits in Melastomataceae, a Large Pantropical Angiosperm Family. Ecology 105(6): e4308. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4308
2022 Melo LRF; Vasconcelos TNC; Caetano APS; Brito VLG. Stamen Diversity in Melastomataceae: Morphology, Color, and Function. In Systematics, Evolution, and Ecology of Melastomataceae, edited by Renato Goldenberg; Fabián A. Michelangeli; Frank Almeda. e ed 1. Vol. 1, 1-793. Switzerland: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99742-7_27
2021 Melo LRF; Vasconcelos T; Reginato M; Caetano APS; Brito VLG. Evolution of stamen dimetrism in Melastomataceae, a large radiation of pollen flowers. In Perspectives in plant ecology evolution and systematics. v.48, 125589. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2021.125589
2018 Melo LRF; Guimarães BMC; Barônio GJ; Oliveira LC; Cardoso RKOA; Araújo TN; Telles FJ. How bees perceive flowers and why this is important? In Oecologia Australis. v.22, 362-389. https://doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2018.2204.03
2018 Barônio GJ; Guimarães BMC; Oliveira LC; Melo LRF; Antunes PR; Cardoso RKOA; Araújo TN. Between flowers and visitors: strategies for providing and collecting floral resources. In Oecologia Australis. v.22, 390-409 https://doi.org/10.4257/oeco.2018.2204.04
Preprint article
1. Rodrigues Ferreira de Melo, Lilian; Cristina Teles Marra, Camilla; Boyko, James; Reginato, Marcelo; Morellato, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira; Nogales da Costa Vasconcelos, Thais and Brito, Vinicius Lourenço Garcia. 2026. Evolutionary correlation of floral and fruit traits reflects trade‐offs between pollination and seed dispersal in Melastomataceae. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6685725