Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Macroevolution for plant reproductive biologists
- 2 Pollination crisis, plant sex systems, and predicting evolutionary trends in attractiveness
- 3 Evolution and ecological implications of “specialized” pollinator rewards
- 4 Fig–fig wasp mutualism: the fall of the strict cospeciation paradigm?
- 5 Fossil bees and their plant associates
- 6 Pollen evidence for the pollination biology of early flowering plants
- 7 Pollinator mediated floral divergence in the absence of pollinator shifts
- 8 Animal pollination and speciation in plants: general mechanisms and examples from the orchids
- 9 Why are floral signals complex? An outline of functional hypotheses
- 10 A survey on pollination modes in cacti and a potential key innovation
- 11 Zygomorphy, area, and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in angiosperms
- 12 Ambophily and “super generalism” in Ceratonia siliqua (Fabaceae) pollination
- 13 Structure and dynamics of pollination networks: the past, present, and future
- 14 Pollinators as drivers of plant distribution and assemblage into communities
- 15 Effects of alien species on plant–pollinator interactions: how can native plants adapt to changing pollination regimes?
- 16 Pollen resources of non-Apis bees in southern Africa
- 17 Advances in the study of the evolution of plant–pollinator relationships
- Index
- Plate section
- References
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Macroevolution for plant reproductive biologists
- 2 Pollination crisis, plant sex systems, and predicting evolutionary trends in attractiveness
- 3 Evolution and ecological implications of “specialized” pollinator rewards
- 4 Fig–fig wasp mutualism: the fall of the strict cospeciation paradigm?
- 5 Fossil bees and their plant associates
- 6 Pollen evidence for the pollination biology of early flowering plants
- 7 Pollinator mediated floral divergence in the absence of pollinator shifts
- 8 Animal pollination and speciation in plants: general mechanisms and examples from the orchids
- 9 Why are floral signals complex? An outline of functional hypotheses
- 10 A survey on pollination modes in cacti and a potential key innovation
- 11 Zygomorphy, area, and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in angiosperms
- 12 Ambophily and “super generalism” in Ceratonia siliqua (Fabaceae) pollination
- 13 Structure and dynamics of pollination networks: the past, present, and future
- 14 Pollinators as drivers of plant distribution and assemblage into communities
- 15 Effects of alien species on plant–pollinator interactions: how can native plants adapt to changing pollination regimes?
- 16 Pollen resources of non-Apis bees in southern Africa
- 17 Advances in the study of the evolution of plant–pollinator relationships
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Introduction
Flower–pollinator interactions are among the most fascinating research areas in ecology. The ways in which such interactions evolve are influenced by a number of biotic and abiotic factors, such as habitat and climate, plant and animal morphology, phylogenetic background etc. The increasing amount of data on pollination ecology combined with more and more detailed and precise phylogenetic reconstructions based on (not only) molecular evidence, allows improvement of our understanding of how flower–pollinator relationships evolve. Plant lineages especially well-suited for the study of factors influencing the evolution of flower–pollinator interactions would contain pollination by various groups of pollinators, preferably both diurnal and nocturnal, including both vertebrates and invertebrates, and sufficient evolutionary shifts among pollination modes.
Cactaceae are ideal for this type of study for a number of reasons:
manageable number of species
great diversity of habitats
diverse growth forms
adaptation to several pollinator guilds, including bimodal and generalized pollination
an increasingly solid phylogenetic base of data
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- Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships , pp. 301 - 319Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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