Evolutionary ecology of nectar

AL Parachnowitsch, JS Manson, N Sletvold - Annals of botany, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Floral nectar is an important determinant of plant–pollinator interactions and an
integral component of pollination syndromes, suggesting it is under pollinator-mediated …

Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands

M Hanisch, O Schweiger, AF Cord… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits offer promising avenues to investigate how community composition and
diversity define ecosystem functioning and service delivery. In recent years, many empirical …

Influence of pollen nutrition on honey bee health: do pollen quality and diversity matter?

G Di Pasquale, M Salignon, Y Le Conte, LP Belzunces… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Honey bee colonies are highly dependent upon the availability of floral resources from
which they get the nutrients (notably pollen) necessary to their development and survival …

Massively introduced managed species and their consequences for plant–pollinator interactions

B Geslin, B Gauzens, M Baude, I Dajoz… - Advances in ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the rise of agriculture, human populations have domesticated plant and animal
species to fulfil their needs. With modern agriculture, a limited number of these species has …

Global change effects on plant–insect interactions: the role of phytochemistry

MA Jamieson, LA Burkle, JS Manson… - Current opinion in insect …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Phytochemicals mediate plant–insect interactions.•Plant primary and secondary
metabolites affect insect herbivores and pollinators.•Environmental change factors can …

Yeasts in nectar of an early‐blooming herb: sought by bumble bees, detrimental to plant fecundity

CM Herrera, MI Pozo, M Medrano - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Through their effects on physicochemical features of floral nectar, nectar‐dwelling yeasts
can alter pollinator behavior, but the effect of such changes on pollination success and plant …

Invasive non-native plants have a greater effect on neighbouring natives than other non-natives

SE Kuebbing, MA Nuñez - Nature plants, 2016 - nature.com
Human activity is creating a global footprint by changing the climate, altering habitats and
reshuffling the distribution of species. The movement of species around the globe has led to …

Understanding how changing soil nitrogen affects plant–pollinator interactions

TI David, J Storkey, CJ Stevens - Arthropod-Plant Interactions, 2019 - Springer
Many pollinating insects, across taxa and regions, have declined during the twentieth
century. Amongst the drivers of these trends, soil eutrophication and acidification caused by …

Jack of all nectars, master of most: DNA methylation and the epigenetic basis of niche width in a flower‐living yeast

CM Herrera, MI Pozo, P Bazaga - Molecular Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to genetic differences between individuals as a result of nucleotide sequence
variation, epigenetic changes that occur as a result of DNA methylation may also contribute …

Novel chemicals engender myriad invasion mechanisms

Inderjit, D Simberloff, H Kaur, S Kalisz… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐native invasive species (NIS) release chemicals into the environment that are unique to
the invaded communities, defined as novel chemicals. Novel chemicals impact competitors …