Evolutionary plant–pollinator responses to anthropogenic land‐use change: impacts on ecosystem services

M Pontarp, A Runemark, M Friberg… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification at field and landscape scales, including increased use of
agrochemicals and loss of semi‐natural habitats, is a major driver of insect declines and …

Foraging efficiency and size matching in a plant–pollinator community: the importance of sugar content and tongue length

SGT Klumpers, M Stang, PGL Klinkhamer - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing question in ecology is how species interactions are structured within
communities. Although evolutionary theory predicts close size matching between floral …

The evolution of flower–pollinator trait matching, and why do some alpine gingers appear to be mismatched?

B Wang, ZY Tong, YZ Xiong, XF Wang… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Morphological matching between flower and pollinator traits
has been documented in diverse plant lineages. Indeed, the matching of corolla tube length …

[HTML][HTML] Pollination in a new climate: assessing the potential influence of flower temperature variation on insect pollinator behaviour

M Shrestha, JE Garcia, Z Bukovac, A Dorin, AG Dyer - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Climate change has the potential to enhance or disrupt biological systems, but currently,
little is known about how organism plasticity may facilitate adaptation to localised climate …

Rapid evolution of a floral trait following acquisition of novel pollinators

CR Mackin, JF Peña, MA Blanco, NJ Balfour… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the pollinator assemblage visiting a plant can have consequences for
reproductive success and floral evolution. We studied a recent plant trans‐continental range …

A functional view reveals substantial predictability of pollinator-mediated selection

Ø Opedal - Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2021 - pollinationecology.org
A predictive understanding of adaptation to changing environments hinges on a mechanistic
understanding of the extent and causes of variation in natural selection. Estimating variation …

Reproductive strategies of animal‐pollinated plants on high mountains: A review of studies from the “Third Pole”

ZY Tong, LY Wu, SQ Huang - Journal of Systematics and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Having hundreds of big mountains, the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and its southern boundary,
the Hengduan Mountains Region, represent one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the …

The context dependence of pollinator-mediated selection in natural populations

N Sletvold - International Journal of Plant Sciences, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Pollinator-mediated selection to a large extent shapes angiosperm floral diversity, but clearly
not in isolation. To understand how selection by pollinators interacts with other selective …

When cheating turns into a stabilizing mechanism of plant–pollinator communities

F Duchenne, S Aubert, E Barreto, E Brenes… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Mutualistic interactions, such as plant–mycorrhizal or plant–pollinator interactions, are
widespread in ecological communities and frequently exploited by cheaters, species that …

Intraspecific divergence in floral‐tube length promotes asymmetric pollen movement and reproductive isolation

C Minnaar, ML de Jager, B Anderson - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The causative link between phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation is an
important but poorly understood part of ecological speciation. We studied the effects of floral …