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Gender‐specific pollinator preference for floral traits [PDF]
Functional Ecology, 2012 Summary Shifts between alternative pollinator types are regarded as the main source of divergent selection underlying angiosperm floral diversification. However, pollinating species can exhibit substantial intraspecific variation, particularly between genders, in key morphological and behavioural traits determining their interactions with flowers ...
Marinus L. de Jager, Allan G. Ellis
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Phenotypic Selection on Flower Color and Floral Display Size by Three Bee Species
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Plants exhibit a wide array of floral forms and pollinators can act as agent of selection on floral traits. Two trends have emerged from recent reviews of pollinator-mediated selection in plants.
Johanne Brunet +2 more
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Sex‐specific floral attraction traits in a sequentially hermaphroditic species [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Abstract Many angiosperms are hermaphroditic and produce bisexual flowers in which male (pollen export) and female (stigma receptivity) functions are separated temporally. This sequential hermaphroditism may be associated with variation in flower size, color, or pattern, all of which may influence pollinator attraction.
Kristen Peach +3 more
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The FloRes Database: A floral resources trait database for pollinator habitat-assessment generated by a multistep workflow [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 The decline of pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes proceeds due to intensive land use and the associated loss of habitat and food sources. The feeding of those insects depends on the spatial and temporal distribution of nectar and pollen as ...
Franziska Baden-Böhm +2 more
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Non-equilibrium dynamics and floral trait interactions shape extant angiosperm diversity. [PDF]
, 2016 Why are some traits and trait combinations exceptionally common across the tree of life, whereas others are vanishingly rare? The distribution of trait diversity across a clade at any time depends on the ancestral state of the clade, the rate at which ...
Armbruster, W Scott +12 more
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Phenotypic selection on floral traits in an urban landscape [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Native species are increasingly living in urban landscapes associated with abiotic and biotic changes that may influence patterns of phenotypic selection. However, measures of selection in urban and non-urban environments, and exploration of the mechanisms associated with such changes, are uncommon.
Rebecca E. Irwin +2 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 Background Angiosperms employ an astonishing variety of visual and olfactory floral signals that are generally thought to evolve under natural selection. Those morphological and chemical traits can form highly correlated sets of traits.
Pengjuan Zu +5 more
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Petal Morphology Is Correlated with Floral Longevity in Paeonia suffruticosa
Agronomy, 2023 Floral longevity (FL) is an important floral functional trait which is critical for flowering plants. FL shows great diversity among angiosperms; however, there is limited information on the mechanisms that influence differences in floral longevity ...
Yingzi Guo +7 more
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BMC Plant Biology, 2010 Background Floral traits within plants can vary with flower position or flowering time. Within an inflorescence, sexual allocation of early produced basal flowers is often female-biased while later produced distal flowers are male-biased.
Du Guo-Zhen +2 more
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Testing Pollination Syndromes in Oenothera (Onagraceae)
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2021 Pollinators are considered a major selective force in shaping the diversification of angiosperms. It has been hypothesized that convergent evolution of floral form has resulted in “pollination syndromes” - i.e.
Kyra N. Krakos, Matthew W. Austin
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