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Izquierdo JV, Canaveze Y, Machado SR, Amorim FW. Anatomical, histochemical, and developmental approaches reveal the long-term functioning of the floral nectary in Tocoyena formosa (Rubiaceae). Naturwissenschaften 2024; 111:25. [PMID: 38647683 DOI: 10.1007/s00114-024-01909-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
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Tocoyena formosa has a persistent floral nectary that continues producing nectar throughout flower and fruit development. This plant also presents an intriguing non-anthetic nectary derived from early-developing floral buds with premature abscised corolla. In this study, we characterize the structure, morphological changes, and functioning of T. formosa floral nectary at different developmental stages. We subdivided the nectary into four categories based on the floral and fruit development stage at which nectar production started: (i) non-anthetic nectary; (ii) anthetic nectary, which follows the regular floral development; (iii) pericarpial nectary, derived from pollinated flowers following fruit development; and (iv) post-anthetic nectary that results from non-pollinated flowers after anthesis. The nectary has a uniseriate epidermis with stomata, nectariferous parenchyma, and vascular bundles, with a predominating phloem at the periphery. The non-anthetic nectary presents immature tissues that release the exudate. The nectary progressively becomes more rigid as the flower and fruit develop. The main nectary changes during flower and fruit development comprised the thickening of the cuticle and epidermal cell walls, formation of cuticular epithelium, and an increase in the abundance of calcium oxalate crystals and phenolic cells near the vascular bundles. Projections of the outer periclinal walls toward the cuticle in the post-anthetic nectary suggest nectar reabsorption. The anatomical changes of the nectary allow it to function for an extended period throughout floral and fruit development. Hence, T. formosa nectary is a bivalent secretory structure that plays a crucial role in the reproductive and defensive interactions of this plant species.
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- Juliana V Izquierdo
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (CONICET), Córdoba, X5000ZAA, Argentina
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI), Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (Unesp), Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
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- Laboratorio de Pesquisas em Anatomia Vegetal, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (Unesp), Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI), Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (Unesp), Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
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Ballarin CS, Vizentin-Bugoni J, Hachuy-Filho L, Amorim FW. Imprints of indirect interactions on a resource-mediated ant-plant network across different levels of network organization. Oecologia 2024; 204:661-673. [PMID: 38448764 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-024-05522-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Indirect interactions are pivotal in the evolution of interacting species and the assembly of populations and communities. Nevertheless, despite recently being investigated in plant-animal mutualism at the community level, indirect interactions have not been studied in resource-mediated mutualisms involving plant individuals that share different animal species as partners within a population (i.e., individual-based networks). Here, we analyzed an individual-based ant-plant network to evaluate how resource properties affect indirect interaction patterns and how changes in indirect links leave imprints in the network across multiple levels of network organization. Using complementary analytical approaches, we described the patterns of indirect interactions at the micro-, meso-, and macro-scale. We predicted that plants offering intermediate levels of nectar quantity and quality interact with more diverse ant assemblages. The increased number of ant species would cause a higher potential for indirect interactions in all scales evaluated. We found that nectar properties modified patterns of indirect interactions of plant individuals that share mutualistic partners, leaving imprints across different network scales. To our knowledge, this is the first study tracking indirect interactions in multiple scales within an individual-based network. We show that functional traits of interacting species, such as nectar properties, may lead to changes in indirect interactions, which could be tracked across different levels of the network organization evaluated.
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- Caio S Ballarin
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações, LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Rua Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin, Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil.
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil.
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Biodiversidade Animal, Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Campus Universitário, Capão do Leão, RS, CEP 96010-900, Brasil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações, LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Rua Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin, Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações, LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (UNESP), Rua Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin, Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil
- Programa de Pós-Graduação Em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, CEP 18618-689, Brazil
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Amorim FW, Ballarin CS, Spicacci G, Bergamasco G, Carvalho L, Uieda W, Moraes AP. Opossums and birds facilitate the unexpected bat visitation to the ground-flowering Scybalium fungiforme. Ecology 2023; 104:e3935. [PMID: 36464939 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Revised: 10/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/27/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Felipe W Amorim
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil.,Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil.,Graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil.,Graduação em Ciências Biológicas, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações - LEPI, Departamento de Biodiversidade e Bioestatística, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho"-UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC-UFABC, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil
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Ballarin CS, Hachuy‐Filho L, Doria MJW, Giffu MM, Polizello DS, Oliveira PH, Lacerda‐Barbosa PA, Amorim FW. Intra‐seasonal and daily variations in nectar availability affect bee assemblage in a monodominant afforested Brazilian Cerrado. AUSTRAL ECOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.13218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Caio S. Ballarin
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP) Street Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin CEP 18618‐689 Botucatu São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
- Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” São Paulo São Paulo State Brazil
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Salim JA, Saraiva AM, Zermoglio PF, Agostini K, Wolowski M, Drucker DP, Soares FM, Bergamo PJ, Varassin IG, Freitas L, Maués MM, Rech AR, Veiga AK, Acosta AL, Araujo AC, Nogueira A, Blochtein B, Freitas BM, Albertini BC, Maia-Silva C, Nunes CEP, Pires CSS, dos Santos CF, Queiroz EP, Cartolano EA, de Oliveira FF, Amorim FW, Fontúrbel FE, da Silva GV, Consolaro H, Alves-dos-Santos I, Machado IC, Silva JS, Aleixo KP, Carvalheiro LG, Rocca MA, Pinheiro M, Hrncir M, Streher NS, Ferreira PA, de Albuquerque PMC, Maruyama PK, Borges RC, Giannini TC, Brito VLG. Data standardization of plant-pollinator interactions. Gigascience 2022; 11:6593428. [PMID: 35639882 PMCID: PMC9154084 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giac043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Animal pollination is an important ecosystem function and service, ensuring both the integrity of natural systems and human well-being. Although many knowledge shortfalls remain, some high-quality data sets on biological interactions are now available. The development and adoption of standards for biodiversity data and metadata has promoted great advances in biological data sharing and aggregation, supporting large-scale studies and science-based public policies. However, these standards are currently not suitable to fully support interaction data sharing. Results Here we present a vocabulary of terms and a data model for sharing plant–pollinator interactions data based on the Darwin Core standard. The vocabulary introduces 48 new terms targeting several aspects of plant–pollinator interactions and can be used to capture information from different approaches and scales. Additionally, we provide solutions for data serialization using RDF, XML, and DwC-Archives and recommendations of existing controlled vocabularies for some of the terms. Our contribution supports open access to standardized data on plant–pollinator interactions. Conclusions The adoption of the vocabulary would facilitate data sharing to support studies ranging from the spatial and temporal distribution of interactions to the taxonomic, phenological, functional, and phylogenetic aspects of plant–pollinator interactions. We expect to fill data and knowledge gaps, thus further enabling scientific research on the ecology and evolution of plant–pollinator communities, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, and the development of public policies. The proposed data model is flexible and can be adapted for sharing other types of interactions data by developing discipline-specific vocabularies of terms.
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- José A Salim
- Correspondence authors. José A. Salim. Universidade Estadual de Campinas Instituto de Biologia Departamento de Biologia Vegetal Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Phone +55 (19) 3521-6166. E-mail:
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- Correspondence authors. Antonio M. Saraiva. Laboratório de Automação Agrícola - Escola Politécnica da USP Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, travessa 3, nº 158, sala C2-56 Edifício de Engenharia Elétrica Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP CEP 05508-900 Fone: +55 (11) 3091-5366 Fax: +55 (11) 3091-5294. E-mail:
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- Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Instituto IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciências da Natureza, Matemática e Educação, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Rodovia Anhanguera km 174, Araras, São Paulo, Caixa Postal 153. CEP 13600-970, Brazil
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- Instituto de Ciências da Natureza, Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Rua Gabriel Monteiro da Silva 700, Alfenas, Minas Gerais, 37130-001, Brazil
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- Embrapa Agricultura Digital, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-010, Brazil
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- Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, R. Pacheco Leão 915, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-030, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
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- Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, R. Pacheco Leão 915, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 22460-030, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Entomologia, Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Trav. Dr. Enéas Pinheiro, s/n°, Bairro do Marco, Belém, Pará, 66095-903, Brazil
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- Faculdade Interdisciplinar de Humanidades, Centro Multiusuário de Pesquisa em Ciência Florestal (MULTIFLOR), Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, Minas Gerais, 39100-000, Brazil
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- Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-010, Brazil
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale. Rua Boaventura da Silva, 955, 66055-900, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Interações Plant-Animal (LIPA), Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH), Universidade Federal do ABC, Alameda da Universidade, s/nº, Anchieta, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90619-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zootecnia, Campus Universitário do Pici, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
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- Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-010, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biociências, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido, Av. Francisco Mota, n° 572, Presidente Costa e Silva, Mossoró, RN, 59625-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
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- Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 90619-900, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Escola Politécnica, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-010, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Bionomia, Biogeografia e Sistemática de Insetos (BIOSIS), Instituto de Biologia (IBIO), Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI), Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia / INPA-V8 - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, Petrópolis, 69067-375, Manaus - AM, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Catalão, Catalão, Goiás, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE 50670-901, Brazil
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- Instituto Federal de Educação Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso, Avenida Sen. Filinto Müller, 953 - CEP: 78043-400 - Cuiabá, MT, Brazil
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- Associação Brasileira de Estudos das Abelhas (A.B.E.L.H.A.), São Paulo, SP, 04535-001, Brazil
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Samambaia, Goiânia, Brazil Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), University of Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Avenida Marechal Rondon s/n, São Cristóvão, Sergipe, 49100-000, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, R. Major Antônio Cardoso 590, Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul, 97900-000, Brazil
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- Departamento de Fisiologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 321, Travessa 14, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA,15260, United States of America
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- Environmental Sciences Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale. Rua Boaventura da Silva, 955, 66055-900, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Instituto Tecnológico Vale. Rua Boaventura da Silva, 955, 66055-900, Belém, Pará, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Rua Ceará sn, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, 38.405-302, Brazil
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Amorim FW, Marino S, Sanz‐Veiga PA, Ollerton J, Oliveira PE. Short flowers for long tongues: Functional specialization in a nocturnal pollination network of an asclepiad in long‐tongued hawkmoths. Biotropica 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.13090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Felipe W. Amorim
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI) Programa de Pós‐graduação em Botânica Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva y Biología Floral Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV) CONICET and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Córdoba Argentina
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI) Programa de Pós‐graduação em Botânica Programa de Pós‐graduação em Zoologia Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology University of Northampton Northampton UK
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Amorim FW. Are the New World hummingbird-hawkmoths functional equivalents of hummingbirds? Ecology 2020; 101:e03161. [PMID: 33448357 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2020] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Felipe W Amorim
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações (LEPI), Programa de Pós-graduação em Botânica, Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista 'Júlio de Mesquita Filho', Botucatu, São Paulo, 18618-689, Brazil
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Amorim FW, Ballarin CS, Mariano G, Lacerda‐Barbosa PA, Costa JG, Hachuy‐Filho L, Zabin DA, Queiroz HGD, Servilha JH, Moraes AP, Morellato LPC. Good heavens what animal can pollinate it? A fungus‐like holoparasitic plant potentially pollinated by opossums. Ecology 2020; 101:e03001. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Felipe W. Amorim
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Curso de Ciências Biológicas Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Botucatu SP Brazil
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- Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas Universidade Federal do ABC 09606‐070São Bernardo do Campo SP Brazil
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- Laboratório de Fenologia Departamento de Biodiversidade Instituto de Biociências Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Rio Claro SP Brazil
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Ollerton J, Liede-Schumann S, Endress ME, Meve U, Rech AR, Shuttleworth A, Keller HA, Fishbein M, Alvarado-Cárdenas LO, Amorim FW, Bernhardt P, Celep F, Chirango Y, Chiriboga-Arroyo F, Civeyrel L, Cocucci A, Cranmer L, da Silva-Batista IC, de Jager L, Deprá MS, Domingos-Melo A, Dvorsky C, Agostini K, Freitas L, Gaglianone MC, Galetto L, Gilbert M, González-Ramírez I, Gorostiague P, Goyder D, Hachuy-Filho L, Heiduk A, Howard A, Ionta G, Islas-Hernández SC, Johnson SD, Joubert L, Kaiser-Bunbury CN, Kephart S, Kidyoo A, Koptur S, Koschnitzke C, Lamborn E, Livshultz T, Machado IC, Marino S, Mema L, Mochizuki K, Morellato LPC, Mrisha CK, Muiruri EW, Nakahama N, Nascimento VT, Nuttman C, Oliveira PE, Peter CI, Punekar S, Rafferty N, Rapini A, Ren ZX, Rodríguez-Flores CI, Rosero L, Sakai S, Sazima M, Steenhuisen SL, Tan CW, Torres C, Trøjelsgaard K, Ushimaru A, Vieira MF, Wiemer AP, Yamashiro T, Nadia T, Queiroz J, Quirino Z. The diversity and evolution of pollination systems in large plant clades: Apocynaceae as a case study. Ann Bot 2019; 123:311-325. [PMID: 30099492 PMCID: PMC6344220 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2018] [Accepted: 07/10/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Large clades of angiosperms are often characterized by diverse interactions with pollinators, but how these pollination systems are structured phylogenetically and biogeographically is still uncertain for most families. Apocynaceae is a clade of >5300 species with a worldwide distribution. A database representing >10 % of species in the family was used to explore the diversity of pollinators and evolutionary shifts in pollination systems across major clades and regions. METHODS The database was compiled from published and unpublished reports. Plants were categorized into broad pollination systems and then subdivided to include bimodal systems. These were mapped against the five major divisions of the family, and against the smaller clades. Finally, pollination systems were mapped onto a phylogenetic reconstruction that included those species for which sequence data are available, and transition rates between pollination systems were calculated. KEY RESULTS Most Apocynaceae are insect pollinated with few records of bird pollination. Almost three-quarters of species are pollinated by a single higher taxon (e.g. flies or moths); 7 % have bimodal pollination systems, whilst the remaining approx. 20 % are insect generalists. The less phenotypically specialized flowers of the Rauvolfioids are pollinated by a more restricted set of pollinators than are more complex flowers within the Apocynoids + Periplocoideae + Secamonoideae + Asclepiadoideae (APSA) clade. Certain combinations of bimodal pollination systems are more common than others. Some pollination systems are missing from particular regions, whilst others are over-represented. CONCLUSIONS Within Apocynaceae, interactions with pollinators are highly structured both phylogenetically and biogeographically. Variation in transition rates between pollination systems suggest constraints on their evolution, whereas regional differences point to environmental effects such as filtering of certain pollinators from habitats. This is the most extensive analysis of its type so far attempted and gives important insights into the diversity and evolution of pollination systems in large clades.
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- Jeff Ollerton
- Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK
- For correspondence. E-mail:
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- Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Lehrstuhl für Pflanzensystematik, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Curso de Licenciatura em Educação do Campo - LEC, Campus JK - Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste, UNNE-CONICET, Corrientes, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, USA
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”- Unesp, Botucatu - SP, Brazil
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- Saint Louis University, Department of Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Mehmet Akif Ersoy Mah. 269. Cad. Urankent Prestij Konutları, Demetevler, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa
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- EDB, UMR 5174, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse cedex, France
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva - Biología Floral, IMBIV (UNC-CONICET), Argentina
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- Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janiero, RJ, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica - CB, Laboratório de Biologia Floral e Reprodutiva - POLINIZAR, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil
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- Saint Louis University, Department of Biology, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Universidade Federal de São Carlos - UFSCar, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Depto. Ciências da Natureza, Matemática e Educação, Araras, SP, Brazil
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- Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ciências Ambientais, Centro de Biociências e Biotecnologia, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ, Brazil
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- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and IMBIV (CONICET-UNC). CP, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Herbarium - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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- Laboratorio de Plantas Vasculares, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Investigaciones Botánicas (LABIBO), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta-CONICET. Salta, Argentina
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- Herbarium - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações – LEPI, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”- Unesp, Botucatu - SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Biology Department, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA
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- Natural History Museum, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, USA
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- Laboratorio de Plantas Vasculares, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- Department of Biology, Willamette University Salem, OR, USA
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Natural History Museum, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA, USA
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- Departamento de Botânica, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, Rio de Janiero, RJ, Brazil
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- Faculty of Arts, Science and Technology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK
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- Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Sciences and Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, Philadephia, PA, USA
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- Departamento de Botânica - CB, Laboratório de Biologia Floral e Reprodutiva - POLINIZAR, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva - Biología Floral, IMBIV (UNC-CONICET), Argentina
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- Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Sciences and Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University, Philadephia, PA, USA
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Hirano, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Botânica, Laboratório de Fenologia, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
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- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Botany, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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- Biospheres, Eshwari, Nanasaheb Peshva Marg, Near Ramna Ganpati, Lakshminagar, Parvati, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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- Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Novo Horizonte, Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
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- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, PR China
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- Laboratorio de Ecología, UBIPRO, FES-Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Estado de México, México
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- Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Hirano, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Caixa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Plant Sciences, Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Qwaqwa campus, Phuthaditjhaba, Republic of South Africa
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- Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) and IMBIV (CONICET-UNC). CP, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Tsurukabuto, Kobe City, Japan
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Museo Botánico Córdoba y Cátedra de Morfología Vegetal (IMBIV-UNC-CONICET), Córdoba, Argentina
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- Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Science, Tokushima University, Minamijyosanjima, Tokushima, Japan
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- Centro Acadêmico de Vitória, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
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- Departamento de Educação, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Mamnguape, Paraiba, Brazil
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- Departamento de Engenharia e Meio Ambiente, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Rio Tinto, Paraíba, Brazil
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Sanz-Veiga PA, Ré Jorge L, Benitez-Vieyra S, Amorim FW. Pericarpial nectary-visiting ants do not provide fruit protection against pre-dispersal seed predators regardless of ant species composition and resource availability. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0188445. [PMID: 29211790 PMCID: PMC5718428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Extrafloral nectaries can occur in both vegetative and reproductive plant structures. In many Rubiaceae species in the Brazilian Cerrado, after corolla abscission, the floral nectary continues to secret nectar throughout fruit development originating post-floral pericarpial nectaries which commonly attract many ant species. The occurrence of such nectar secreting structures might be strategic for fruit protection against seed predators, as plants are expected to invest higher on more valuable and vulnerable parts. Here, we performed ant exclusion experiments to investigate whether the interaction with ants mediated by the pericarpial nectaries of Tocoyena formosa affects plant reproductive success by reducing the number of pre-dispersal seed predators. We also assessed whether ant protection was dependent on ant species composition and resource availability. Although most of the plants were visited by large and aggressive ant species, such as Ectatomma tuberculatum and species of the genus Camponotus, ants did not protect fruits against seed predators. Furthermore, the result of the interaction was neither related to ant species composition nor to the availability of resources. We suggest that these results may be related to the nature and behavior of the most important seed predators, like Hemicolpus abdominalis weevil which the exoskeleton toughness prevent it from being predated by most ant species. On the other hand, not explored factors, such as reward quality, local ant abundance, ant colony characteristics and/or the presence of alternative energetic sources could also account for variations in ant frequency, composition, and finally ant protective effects, highlighting the conditionality of facultative plant-ant mutualisms.
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- Priscila Andre Sanz-Veiga
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações–LEPI, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Botânica), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- * E-mail: (PASV); (FWA)
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- Departamento de Biologia animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações–LEPI, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Botânica), Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Laboratório de Ecologia da Polinização e Interações–LEPI, Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
- * E-mail: (PASV); (FWA)
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Ramírez-Burbano MB, Stiles FG, González C, Amorim FW, Dalsgaard B, Maruyama PK. The role of the endemic and critically endangered Colorful PufflegEriocnemis mirabilisin plant-hummingbird networks of the Colombian Andes. Biotropica 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/btp.12442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- Mónica B. Ramírez-Burbano
- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Apartado 7495 Bogotá Colombia
- Programa de doctorado en Ciencias- Biologıa; Departamento de Biologıa; Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas; Universidad del Valle; Calle 13 # 100-00, edificio 320 Cali Colombia
- Grupo de Estudios en Geología, Ecología y Conservación GECO; Departamento de Biología. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales; Exactas y de la Educación; Carrera 2 # 3N- 111, oficina 112 Sector de Tulcán Popayán Colombia
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- Instituto de Ciencias Naturales; Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Apartado 7495 Bogotá Colombia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad de Los Andes; Cra 1A # 18A-10 Universidad de los Andes. Edificio J - Laboratorio 103, Oficina A-304 Bogotá Colombia
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- Departamento de Botânica; UNESP - Campus de Botucatu; Instituto de Biociências; Rua Prof. Dr. Antonio Celso Wagner Zanin, s/n° CEP: 18618-689 Botucatu Brazil
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Denmark
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp); Rua Monteiro Lobato 255, Cidade Universitária “Zeferino Vaz” Barão Geraldo Campinas SP CEP 13.083-970 Brazil
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Johnson SD, Moré M, Amorim FW, Haber WA, Frankie GW, Stanley DA, Coccuci AA, Raguso RA. The long and the short of it: a global analysis of hawkmoth pollination niches and interaction networks. Funct Ecol 2016; 31:101-115. [PMID: 28344378 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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1. Proboscis length has been proposed as a key dimension of plant pollination niches, but this niche space has not previously been explored at regional and global scales for any pollination system. Hawkmoths are ideal organisms for exploring pollinator niches as they are important pollinators in most of the biodiverse regions of the earth and vary greatly in proboscis length, with some species having the longest proboscides of all insects. 2. Using datasets for nine biogeographical regions spanning the Old and New World, we ask whether it is possible to identify distinct hawkmoth pollination niches based on the frequency distribution of proboscis length, and whether these niches are reflected in the depths of flowers that are pollinated by hawkmoths. We also investigate the levels of specialization in hawkmoth pollination systems at the regional and community level using data from interaction network studies. 3. We found that most regional hawkmoth assemblages have bimodal or multimodal distributions of proboscis length, and that these are matched by similar distributions of floral tube lengths. Hawkmoths, particularly those with longer proboscides, are polyphagous and at the network level show foraging specialization equivalent to or less than that of bees and hummingbirds. In the case of plants, shorter-tubed flowers are usually visited by numerous hawkmoth species, while those that are longer-tubed tend to exclude shorter-proboscid hawkmoths and thus become ecologically specialized on longer-proboscid hawkmoth species. Longer-tubed flowers tend to have greater nectar rewards and this promotes short-term constancy by long-proboscid hawkmoths. 4. Our results show that pollinator proboscis length is a key niche axis for plants and can account for patterns of evolution in functional traits such as floral tube length and nectar volume. We also highlight a paradoxical trend for nectar resource niche breadth to increase according to proboscis length of pollinators, while pollinator niche breadth decreases according to the tube length of flowers.
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- Steven D Johnson
- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa
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- Laboratorio de Biologıa Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologıa Vegetal (CONICET-UNCba), CC 495, CP 5000, Cordoba, Argentina
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- Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, P Bag X01, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg, 3209, South Africa
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- Laboratorio de Biologıa Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biologıa Vegetal (CONICET-UNCba), CC 495, CP 5000, Cordoba, Argentina
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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Sazatornil FD, Moré M, Benitez-Vieyra S, Cocucci AA, Kitching IJ, Schlumpberger BO, Oliveira PE, Sazima M, Amorim FW. Beyond neutral and forbidden links: morphological matches and the assembly of mutualistic hawkmoth-plant networks. J Anim Ecol 2016; 85:1586-1594. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Accepted: 02/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Federico D. Sazatornil
- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba); Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba); Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba); Córdoba Argentina
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- Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba); Córdoba Argentina
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- Department of Life Sciences; Natural History Museum; Cromwell Road London UK
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia; Uberlândia Minas Gerais Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal; Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Campinas São Paulo Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica; Instituto de Biociências; Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho’; Botucatu São Paulo Brazil
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Nunes CEP, Amorim FW, Mayer JLS, Sazima M. Pollination ecology of two species of Elleanthus (Orchidaceae): novel mechanisms and underlying adaptations to hummingbird pollination. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2016; 18:15-25. [PMID: 25678071 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Relationships among floral biology, floral micromorphology and pollinator behaviour in bird-pollinated orchids are important issues to understand the evolution of the huge flower diversity within Orchidaceae. We aimed to investigate floral mechanisms underlying the interaction with pollinators in two hummingbird-pollinated orchids occurring in the Atlantic forest. We assessed floral biology, nectar traits, nectary and column micromorphologies, breeding systems and pollinators. In both species, nectar is secreted by lip calli through spaces between the medial lamellar surfaces of epidermal cells. Such a form of floral nectar secretion has not been previously described. Both species present functional protandry and are self-compatible yet pollinator-dependent. Fruit set in hand-pollination experiments was more than twice that under natural conditions, evidencing pollen limitation. The absence of fruit set in interspecific crosses suggests the existence of post-pollination barriers between these sympatric co-flowering species. In Elleanthus brasiliensis, fruits resulting from cross-pollination and natural conditions were heavier than those resulting from self-pollination, suggesting advantages to cross-pollination. Hummingbirds pollinated both species, which share at least one pollinator species. Species differences in floral morphologies led to distinct pollination mechanisms. In E. brasiliensis, attachment of pollinarium to the hummingbird bill occurs through a lever apparatus formed by an appendage in the column, another novelty to our knowledge of orchid pollination. In E. crinipes, pollinarium attachment occurs by simple contact with the bill during insertion into the flower tube, which fits tightly around it. The novelties described here illustrate the overlooked richness in ecology and morphophysiology in Orchidaceae.
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- C E P Nunes
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Amorim FW, Galetto L, Sazima M. Beyond the pollination syndrome: nectar ecology and the role of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators in the reproductive success of Inga sessilis (Fabaceae). Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2013; 15:317-27. [PMID: 22823072 DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00643.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Inga species present brush-type flower morphology allowing them to be visited by distinct groups of pollinators. Nectar features in relation to the main pollinators have seldom been studied in this genus. To test the hypothesis of floral adaptation to both diurnal and nocturnal pollinators, we studied the pollination ecology of Inga sessilis, with emphasis on the nectar secretion patterns, effects of sequential removals on nectar production, sugar composition and the role of diurnal and nocturnal pollinators in its reproductive success. Inga sessilis is self-incompatible and pollinated by hummingbirds, hawkmoths and bats. Fruit set under natural conditions is very low despite the fact that most stigmas receive polyads with sufficient pollen to fertilise all ovules in a flower. Nectar secretion starts in the bud stage and flowers continually secreting nectar for a period of 8 h. Flowers actively reabsorbed the nectar a few hours before senescence. Sugar production increased after nectar removal, especially when flowers were drained during the night. Nectar sugar composition changed over flower life span, from sucrose-dominant (just after flower opening, when hummingbirds were the main visitors) to hexose-rich (throughout the night, when bats and hawkmoths were the main visitors). Diurnal pollinators contributed less than nocturnal ones to fruit production, but the former were more constant and reliable visitors through time. Our results indicate I. sessilis has floral adaptations, beyond the morphology, that encompass both diurnal and nocturnal pollinator requirements, suggesting a complementary and mixed pollination system.
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- F W Amorim
- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Moré M, Amorim FW, Benitez-Vieyra S, Medina AM, Sazima M, Cocucci AA. Armament imbalances: match and mismatch in plant-pollinator traits of highly specialized long-spurred orchids. PLoS One 2012; 7:e41878. [PMID: 22848645 PMCID: PMC3405039 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2012] [Accepted: 06/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Background Some species of long-spurred orchids achieve pollination by a close association with long-tongued hawkmoths. Among them, several Habenaria species present specialized mechanisms, where pollination success depends on the attachment of pollinaria onto the heads of hawkmoths with very long proboscises. However, in the Neotropical region such moths are less abundant than their shorter-tongued relatives and are also prone to population fluctuations. Both factors may give rise to differences in pollinator-mediated selection on floral traits through time and space. Methodology/Principal Findings We characterized hawkmoth assemblages and estimated phenotypic selection gradients on orchid spur lengths in populations of three South American Habenaria species. We examined the match between hawkmoth proboscis and flower spur lengths to determine whether pollinators may act as selective agents on flower morphology. We found significant directional selection on spur length only in Habenaria gourlieana, where most pollinators had proboscises longer than the mean of orchid spur length. Conclusions/Significance Phenotypic selection is dependent on the mutual match between pollinator and flower morphologies. However, our findings indicate that pollinator-mediated selection may vary through time and space according to local variations in pollinator assemblages.
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- Marcela Moré
- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva y Biología Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva y Biología Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva y Biología Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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- Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva y Biología Floral, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
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