Pollination‐precision hypothesis: support from native honey bees and nectar bats
| العنوان: | Pollination‐precision hypothesis: support from native honey bees and nectar bats |
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| المؤلفون: | Alyssa B. Stewart, Carolina Diller, Michele R. Dudash, Charles B. Fenster |
| المصدر: | New Phytologist. 235:1629-1640 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Plant Nectar, Physiology, Chiroptera, Animals, Pollen, Flowers, Plant Science, Bees, Pollination |
| الوصف: | The evolution of floral traits is often considered to reflect selection for increased pollination efficiency. Known as the pollination-precision hypothesis, increased pollination efficiency is achieved by enhancing pollen deposition on precise areas of the pollinator. Most research to date addressing this hypothesis has examined plant species that are a priori predicted to place pollen precisely, but we still lack comparisons with species predicted to have low pollination efficiency. We studied 39 plant species with diverse floral morphologies and measured the precision of pollen placement on two pollinator groups: honey bees (genus Apis) and nectar bats (family Pteropodidae). Pollen was collected from four locations of each pollinator's body (bees: dorsal thorax, ventral thorax, dorsal abdomen, ventral abdomen; bats: crown, face, chest, wing) to calculate pollen placement precision using Pielou's evenness index. We also quantified variation in floral design by scoring floral symmetry, corolla fusion, floral orientation and stamen number. We confirm the importance of four floral character states (bilateral symmetry, fused corollas, horizontal orientation and reduced stamen number) in promoting precise pollen placement on diverse pollinators. Our findings provide phylogenetically corrected, empirical support that the evolution of the four floral characters reflect selection for enhanced precision of pollen placed on pollinators. |
| تدمد: | 1469-8137 0028-646X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::0cf6e0f62920f8b63b0174a703d20b5e https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18050 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....0cf6e0f62920f8b63b0174a703d20b5e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14698137 0028646X |
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