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 …

Background Most tropical and subtropical plants are biotically pollinated, and insects are the
major pollinators. A small but ecologically and economically important group of plants …

Summary The tropical Andes of South America, the world's richest biodiversity hotspot, are
home to many rapid radiations. While geological, climatic, and ecological processes …

Understanding how pollen moves between species is critical to understanding speciation,
diversification, and evolution of flowering plants. For co-flowering species that share …

Abstract “… the highly developed, or specialized types of one geologic period have not been
the parents of the types of succeeding periods, but… the descent has been derived from the …

Aim We review several aspects of the structure of regional and local assemblages of nectar‐
feeding birds and bats and their relationships with food plants to determine the extent to …

In certain angiosperm genera, closely related species have diverged from one another to
converge on different pollination syndromes, whereas species with intermediate phenotypes …

It has been proposed frequently, from Darwin's time onwards, that specialized pollination
increases speciation rates and thus the diversity of plant species (ie clade species richness) …

Although specialized interactions, including those involving plants and their pollinators, are
often invoked to explain high species diversity, they are rarely explored at …

Recent studies have started to unravel the structure of mutualistic networks, although few
functional explanations underlying such structure have been explored. We used computer …