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  1. Estimation of Crude Protein Content in Revegetated Alpine Grassland Using Hyperspectral Data

    Article • Remote Sensing, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  2. Flower reflectance and floral traits data from Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten (OBG), Germany

    Article • Data in Brief, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  3. Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  4. Ant nests increase litter decomposition to mitigate the negative effect of warming in an alpine grassland ecosystem

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2023, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  5. Fly pollination drives convergence of flower coloration

    Article • New Phytologist, October 2021, Wiley

    Lea Hannah, Dr Mani Shrestha

  6. Flower colour and size signals differ depending on geographical location and altitude region

    Article • Plant Biology, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  7. Spontaneous choices for insect-pollinated flower shapes by wild non-eusocial halictid bees

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, August 2021, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  8. Dual mechanisms of autonomous selfing in Roscoea nepalensis (Zingiberaceae)

    Article • Ecology, June 2021, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  9. Insects in the City: Does Remnant Native Habitat Influence Insect Order Distributions?

    Article • Diversity, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  10. Competition and pollen wars: simulations reveal the dynamics of competition mediated through heterospecific pollen transfer by non-flower constant insects

    Article • Theoretical Ecology, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tim Taylor, Dr Mani Shrestha

  11. Australian native flower colours: Does nectar reward drive bee pollinator flower preferences?

    Article • PLOS One, June 2020, PLOS

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  12. Rewardlessness in orchids: how frequent and how rewardless?

    Article • Plant Biology, April 2020, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  13. Anthropogenic fire, vegetation structure and ethnobotanical uses in an alpine shrubland of Nepal’s Himalaya

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, January 2020, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  14. Automated calculation of spectral-reflectance marker-points to enable analysis of plant colour-signalling to pollinators

    Article • MethodsX, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  15. Colour preferences of Tetragonula carbonaria Sm. stingless bees for colour morphs of the Australian native orchid Caladenia carnea

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  16. Floral colour structure in two Australian herbaceous communities: it depends on who is looking

    Article • Annals of Botany, April 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  17. Assessment of floral colour signals at a community through the eyes of the birds and bees

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  18. Colour evolution within orchids depends on whether the pollinator is a bee or a fly

    Article • Plant Biology, February 2019, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  19. Fluorescent Pan Traps Affect the Capture Rate of Insect Orders in Different Ways

    Article • Insects, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  20. Honeybees prefer novel insect-pollinated flower shapes over bird-pollinated flower shapes

    Article • Current Zoology, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  21. Signal or cue: the role of structural colors in flower pollination

    Article • Current Zoology, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  22. Flower signal variability overwhelms receptor-noise and requires plastic color learning in bees

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, October 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  23. Reproductive isolation in alpine gingers: How do coexisting Roscoea ( R. purpurea and R. tumjensis ) conserve species integrity?

    Article • Evolution, September 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  24. Pollination in a new climate: Assessing the potential influence of flower temperature variation on insect pollinator behaviour

    Article • PLOS One, August 2018, PLOS

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  25. Ginger and the beetle: Evidence of primitive pollination system in a Himalayan endemic alpine ginger (Roscoea alpina, Zingiberaceae)

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  26. Mapping species distributions with social media geo-tagged images: Case studies of bees and flowering plants in Australia

    Article • Ecological Informatics, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  27. Why background colour matters to bees and flowers

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  28. Assessing the ecological significance of bee visual detection and colour discrimination on the evolution of flower colours

    Article • Evolutionary Ecology, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  29. Innate colour preferences of the Australian native stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria Sm.

    Article • Journal of Comparative Physiology A, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  30. Roscoea purpurea and a tabanid fly in the Nepalese Himalayas

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha, Subodh Adhikari

  31. A world without birds and bees:

    Article • Plant Biology, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  32. Out of Africa: evidence of the obligate mutualism between long corolla tubed plant and long‐tongued fly in the Himalayas

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, October 2015, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  33. Seeing in colour: a hundred years of studies on bee vision since the work of the Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, January 2015, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  34. Flower Colours through the Lens: Quantitative Measurement with Visible and Ultraviolet Digital Photography

    Article • PLOS One, May 2014, PLOS

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  35. The colorful language of Australian flowers

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  36. Distinctive convergence in Australian floral colours seen through the eyes of Australian birds

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Martin Burd, Dr Mani Shrestha

  37. Flower colour and phylogeny along an altitudinal gradient in the Himalayas of Nepal

    Article • Journal of Ecology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  38. Evaluating the spectral discrimination capabilities of different pollinators and their effect on the evolution of flower colors

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  39. Shades of red: bird-pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  40. Distribution patterns of medicinal plants along an elevational gradient in central Himalaya, Nepal

    Article • Journal of Mountain Science, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  41. The evolutionary ecology of pollination and the functional biology of agricultural plants

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mani Shrestha