Importance of pollinator-mediated interspecific pollen transfer for angiosperm evolution

JI Moreira-Hernández… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Understanding how pollen moves between species is critical to understanding speciation,
diversification, and evolution of flowering plants. For co-flowering species that share …

Pollen on stigmas as proxies of pollinator competition and facilitation: complexities, caveats and future directions

TL Ashman, C Alonso, V Parra-Tabla… - Annals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Pollen transfer via animals is necessary for reproduction by~ 80% of flowering
plants, and most of these plants live in multispecies communities where they can share …

Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators

PG Willmer, H Cunnold, G Ballantyne - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2017 - Springer
Using our accumulated datasets from Kenyan savanna, Mediterranean garigue, UK gardens
and heathland, involving 76 plants from 30 families, we present detailed data to quantify the …

Pollination‐precision hypothesis: support from native honey bees and nectar bats

AB Stewart, C Diller, MR Dudash… - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Patterns and drivers of pollen co‐transport network structure vary across pollinator functional groups

LT Carneiro, JN Williams, DA Barker… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The patterns and drivers of pollen transport on insect bodies can have important
consequences for plant reproductive success and floral evolution; however, they remain little …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in floral morphology, histochemistry, and floral visitors of three sympatric morning glory species

A Jirabanjongjit, AB Stewart, N Chitchak… - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Three morning glory species in the genus Argyreia Lour., A. lycioides (Choisy) Traiperm &
Rattanakrajang, A. mekongensis Gagnep & Courchet, and A. versicolor (Kerr) Staples & …

The Impact of the Invasive Alien Plant, Impatiens glandulifera, on Pollen Transfer Networks

C Emer, IP Vaughan, S Hiscock, J Memmott - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Biological invasions are a threat to the maintenance of ecological processes, including
pollination. Plant-flower visitor networks are traditionally used as a surrogated for pollination …

Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz-pollinated Solanum flowers

M Vallejo-Marín, CE Pereira Nunes, AL Russell - Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The widespread evolution of tube-like anthers releasing pollen from apical pores is
associated with buzz pollination, in which bees vibrate flowers to remove pollen. The …

Pollinator effectiveness is affected by intraindividual behavioral variation

AL Russell, AM Fetters, EI James, TL Ashman - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Variation in pollinator quality is fundamental to the evolution of plant-pollinator mutualisms
and such variation frequently results from differences in foraging behavior. Surprisingly …

Species roles in plant–pollinator communities are conserved across native and alien ranges

C Emer, J Memmott, IP Vaughan… - Diversity and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Alien species alter interaction networks by disrupting existing interactions, for example
between plants and pollinators, and by engaging in new interactions. Predicting the effects …