All Stories

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Why background colour matters to bees and flowers

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

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  5. 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

  6. 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

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

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha, Subodh Adhikari

  8. A world without birds and bees:

    Article • Plant Biology, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  9. 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

  10. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2014, PLOS

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  12. The colorful language of Australian flowers

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

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  13. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, November 2013, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  15. 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

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

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2013, Wiley

    Dr Mani Shrestha

  17. 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

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

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Mani Shrestha