Nectar robbing: ecological and evolutionary perspectives

RE Irwin, JL Bronstein, JS Manson… - Annual review of …, 2010‏ - annualreviews.org
Not all floral visitors attracted to flowers are pollinators. Instead, some visitors circumvent the
floral opening, usually removing nectar without contacting the anthers and/or stigma. Here …

Bird-pollinated flowers in an evolutionary and molecular context

Q Cronk, I Ojeda - Journal of experimental botany, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary shifts to bird pollination (ornithophily) have occurred independently in many
lineages of flowering plants. This shift affects many floral features, particularly those …

Macroevolution of the plant–hummingbird pollination system

E Barreto, MMA Boehm, E Ogutcen… - Biological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant–hummingbird interactions are considered a classic example of coevolution, a process
in which mutually dependent species influence each other's evolution. Plants depend on …

The dual role of floral traits: pollinator attraction and plant defense

RE Irwin, LS Adler, AK Brody - Ecology, 2004‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants are under siege from a diversity of enemies that consume both leaf and floral parts.
Plants resist damage to leaves in a variety of ways, and we now have a rich literature …

Herbivory Reduces the Strength of Pollinator‐Mediated Selection in the Mediterranean Herb Erysimum mediohispanicum: Consequences for Plant Specialization

JM Gómez - The American Naturalist, 2003‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
In this study, I tested whether selection occurring on several morphological and floral traits in
Erysimum mediohispanicum (Cruciferae) is modified by the effects of herbivores. Six plots …

Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean Solanaceae

N Muchhala, S Johnsen, SD Smith - Evolution, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
One classic explanation for the remarkable diversity of flower colors across angiosperms
involves evolutionary shifts among different types of pollinators with different color …

THE ROLE OF POLLINATOR SHIFTS IN THE FLORAL DIVERSIFICATION OF IOCHROMA (SOLANACEAE)

SDW Smith, C Ané, DA Baum - Evolution, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
Differences in floral traits among plant species have often been attributed to adaptation to
pollinators. We explored the importance of pollinator shifts in explaining floral divergence …

Genetic changes associated with floral adaptation restrict future evolutionary potential

RA Zufall, MD Rausher - Nature, 2004‏ - nature.com
A commonly accepted evolutionary principle is that adaptive change constrains the potential
directions of future evolutionary change,,. One manifestation of this is Dollo's law, which …

Nectar robbing: a common phenomenon mainly determined by accessibility constraints, nectar volume and density of energy rewards

SV Rojas‐Nossa, JM Sánchez, L Navarro - Oikos, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Nectar robbers use a hole made in the perianth to extract nectar. Since robbers may modify
plant fitness, they play an important role by driving evolution on floral traits, sha** …

Variation in nectar robbing over time, space, and species

RE Irwin, JE Maloof - Oecologia, 2002‏ - Springer
Spatiotemporal variation in the interactions among plants and animals is widespread; yet
our conceptual and empirical understanding of this variation is limited to a few types of …