Title of article :
Plant generalization on pollinators: species property or local phenomenon?
Author/Authors :
Herrera، Carlos M. نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
Pages :
-12
From page :
13
To page :
0
Abstract :
Despite recent increased interest in the frequency and evolutionary consequences of generalization in plantpollinator systems, little is known on whether plant generalization on pollinators actually is a species-level trait. This paper addresses the following questions for the insect-pollinated shrub Lavandula latifolia: (1) Are different populations of this pollinator-generalist plant similarly generalized? (2) Within a highly generalized population, are all plants similarly pollinator-generalists? Comparable values for richness in pollinator species were obtained from individual- or population-specific rarefaction curves as the projected number of distinct pollinator species implicated in 100 flower visits (SRAR100). Simple counts of pollinator species recorded per individual or population (SOBS) were weakly or nonsignificantly correlated with corresponding SRAR100 figures and closely correlated with flower visitation frequency. The pollination system of L. latifolia was highly generalized at the regional level, but populations differed greatly in pollinator species richness (SRAR100). Within the population intensively studied, individual plants had quite variable degrees of generalization, comparable in magnitude to variation among populations. It is concluded that generalization was not an invariant, species-level property in L. latifolia. Furthermore, pollinator diversity estimates based on SOBS data may be heavily contingent on aspects related to both research design (sampling effort) and biological phenomena (variation in pollinator abundance or visitation rates), which may either mask or distort underlying ecological patterns of interest.
Keywords :
rarefaction curves , Species richness , annual variation , geographical variation , individual variation , Lavandula latifolia , pollinator diversity , pollinator generalization
Journal title :
American Journal of Botany
Serial Year :
2005
Journal title :
American Journal of Botany
Record number :
33101
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