Pollination syndromes, recurring suites of floral traits appearing in connection with specific
functional pollinator groups, have served for decades to organise floral diversity under a …

Ecological niches are crucial for species coexistence and diversification, but the niche
concept has been underutilized in studying the roles of pollinators in plant evolution and …

Globally, plants display enormous variation in life‐history strategies and trait combinations.
However, evidence suggests that evolutionary and physiological constraints limit the …

Linking interspecific interactions (eg, mutualism, competition, predation, parasitism) to
macroevolution (evolutionary change on deep timescales) is a key goal in biology. The role …

Premise of the Study A key question in evolutionary biology is why some clades are more
successful by being widespread geographically, biome diverse, or species‐rich. To extend …

Mutualisms–cooperative interactions among different species–are known to influence global
biodiversity. Nevertheless, theoretical and empirical work has led to divergent hypotheses …

Pollinators influence patterns of plant speciation, and one intuitive hypothesis is that
pollinators affect rates of plant diversification through their effects on pollen dispersal. By …

Switches in pollinators have been argued to be key drivers of floral evolution in
angiosperms. However, few studies have tested the relationship between floral shape …

For centuries, biologists have been captivated by the vast disparity in species richness
between different groups of organisms. Variation in diversity is widely attributed to …

Pollination syndromes describe recurring adaptation to selection imposed by distinct
pollinators. We tested for pollination syndromes in Merianieae (Melastomataceae), which …