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Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists
<p>Pollination sustains terrestrial food webs and agricultural systems and links the dynamics of interacting plant and pollinator species. Although environmental stochasticity is ubiquitous and can propagate through communities via species interactions in a way that increases extinction risk, it is unknown whether stochasticity affects species uniformly across pollination networks. In this paper, we introduce a stochastic dynamic model that makes novel use of the birth function and apply it to pollination networks of increasing size. We start with two- and four-species networks, in order to first illustrate the effects of stochasticity per se and then how those effects combine with specialization. We then describe the relationship between partner number and stochastic extinction risk in empirical networks with >20 species. In the 2-species network, increasing the variance of the stochastic term of the model increased the size of the region in parameter space where extinctions occur. In networks with 4 or more species, specialists were more vulnerable to extinction than generalists over a broad range of variances. Extinction risk in networks with >20 species declined nonlinearly with increasing mutualist partner number. Our results demonstrate the importance of including species interactions and stochasticity when using population-dynamic models to compare species' extinction risk. While models that omit either of these factors are likely to underestimate extinction risk, they disproportionately underestimate the vulnerability of specialists.</p>
Fig. 2 in Floral biology of Romulea (Iridaceae: Crocoideae): a progression from a generalist to a specialist pollination system
Fig. 2. — Principal flower types in Romulea and their pollinators: A, flower of R. tortuosa with a visiting honey bee, Apis mellifera; B, R. monadelpha with the hopliine beetle Clania glenlyonensis; C, plant and flowers of R. hantamensis with the long proboscid fly Prosoeca sp. 1.
Fig. 1 in Floral biology of Romulea (Iridaceae: Crocoideae): a progression from a generalist to a specialist pollination system
Fig. 1. — Vegetative and floral morphology of Romulea: A, R. lilacina, acaulescent habit with bell-shaped flower, detail of stamens with style branches emerging from between the anthers and papillate-hairy filaments; B, R. discifera, caulescent habit with bell-shaped flowers, the stamens enclosed in the floral cup and detail of stamens showing papillate-hairy filaments; C, R. alba, subacaulescent habit and tubular flowers with patent tepals and stamens fully exserted from the tube.
Environmental stochasticity increases extinction risk to a greater degree in pollination specialists than in generalists
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Evolution of intraspecific floral variation in a generalist-specialist pollination system
<p>Intraspecific processes impact macroevolutionary patterns through individual variation, selection, and ecological specialisation. According to the niche variation hypothesis, the broader ecological niche of generalist species has been proposed to increase in variation among individuals, either because they are constituted of diversified specialised individuals each exploiting a fraction of the species' niche, or because they are constituted of true generalist individuals that experience relaxed selection. To test this hypothesis, we surveyed the individual floral morphology of species of Antillean Gesneriaceae, a group that has transitioned between specialisation for hummingbird pollination and generalisation multiple times throughout its evolutionary history. We characterised the profiles of corollas using geometric morphometrics and compared the intraspecific shape variance of specialists and generalists in a phylogenetic context. We used three approaches that differently accounted for the high dimensionality of morphological traits, the ancestral reconstruction of pollination syndromes over time, and the error associated with the estimation of the intraspecific variance. Our findings provide partial support for the niche variation hypothesis. If considering the whole shape in the analysis corroborated this idea, decomposing the shape into principal components indicated that not all aspects of the corolla exhibit the same pattern of variation. Specifically, pollination generalists tend to display greater intraspecific variation than specialists in terms of tubularity, but not of curvature. Accounting for the error in the estimation of the variance also reduced the support for the hypothesis, suggesting that larger sample sizes may be required to reach stronger conclusions. This study emphasises the reciprocal influence between plants and their pollinators on floral morphology at different biodiversity scales, by affecting intraspecific floral variation that can result in macroevolutionary patterns.</p>
Sexual dimorphism in specialist pollinated dioecious species with complex flowers
<div> Premise <p>Pollinators with flower constancy and long nectar-feeding organs should favour less or no sexual dimorphism in the individual flowers of dioecious plants. This hypothesis is deduced because such pollinators can discriminate between intersexual flower size differences, and morphological differences between male and female flowers often diminish pollen transfer.</p> Methods <p>We compared floral traits and pollinator behaviour between sexes in the hawkmoth-pollinated species, <em>Trichosanthes cucumeroides</em>. We focused on the roles of elaborate petal fringes in pollinator attraction and pollination success of female and male flowers by conducting field pollinator observations and fringe removal experiments.</p> Results <p>Female flowers had a similar front flower size and fringe extension as male flowers, supporting our hypothesis. In contrast, females allocated fewer resources to floral biomass. Additionally, they had smaller and narrower petal lobes, lower fringe density, shorter tubes with inferior nectar rewards, and lower display size than males, which is inconsistent with the hypothesis. Nocturnal hawkmoths prefer flowers with long fringe extensions. Fringe removal significantly decreased hawkmoth visitations to both female and male flowers but reduced success only in females. A literature survey indicated that specialist-pollinated species tend to exhibit similar or larger female attraction to floral organs more frequently than generalist-pollinated species.</p> Conclusions <p>Female flowers have evolved similar fringe extensions to male flowers, likely increasing pollinator attraction even slightly, and exhibited lower biomass of other floral parts and nectar production than male flowers. Our findings imply that female-biased resource limitation and flower-size-sensitive pollinators together exert sex-specific selection of floral traits in<em> T. cucumeroides</em>.</p> </div>
Evolution of intraspecific floral variation in a generalist-specialist pollination system
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Data from: Attracting mutualists and antagonists: plant trait variation explains the distribution of specialist floral herbivores and pollinators on crops and wild gourds
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Floral traits play important roles in pollinator attraction and defense against floral herbivory. However, plants may experience trade-offs between conspicuousness to pollinators and herbivore attraction. Comparative studies provide an excellent framework to examine the role of multiple traits shaping mutualist and antagonist interactions. METHODS: To assess whether putative defensive and attractive traits predict species interactions, we grew 20 different Cucurbitaceae species and varieties in the field to measure interactions with pollinators and herbivores and in the greenhouse to assess trait variation. Cucurbits are characterized by the production of cucurbitacins, bitter nonvolatile terpenoids that are effective against generalist herbivores but can attract specialist beetles. We determined whether plant traits such as cucurbitacins predict herbivore resistance and pollinator attraction using an information-theoretic approach. KEY RESULTS: Mutualists and floral antagonists were attracted to the same cucurbit varieties once they flowered. However, rather than cucurbitacin concentration, we found that the size of the flower and volatile emissions of floral sesquiterpenoids explained both pollinator and floral herbivore visitation preference across cucurbit taxa. This pattern held across cucurbit taxa and within the Cucurbita genus. CONCLUSIONS: Surprisingly, floral sesquiterpenoid volatiles, which are associated with direct defense, indirect defense, and attraction, rather than defense traits such as cucurbitacins, appeared to drive interactions with both pollinators and floral herbivores across cucurbit taxa. Identifying the relevant plant traits for attraction and deterrence is important in this economically valuable crop, particularly if pollinators and floral herbivores use the same plant traits as cues.
Data from: Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographical expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee Peponapis pruinosa
Squash was first domesticated in Mexico and is now found throughout North America (NA) along with Peponapis pruinosa, a pollen specialist bee species of the squash genus Cucurbita. The origin and spread of squash cultivation is well-studied archaeologically and phylogenetically; however, no study has documented how cultivation of this or any other crop has influenced species in mutualistic interactions. We used molecular markers to reconstruct the demographic range expansion and colonization routes of P. pruinosa from its native range into temperate NA. Populations east of the Rocky Mountains expanded from the wild host plant's range in Mexico and were established by a series of founder events. Eastern North America was most likely colonized from squash bee populations in the present-day continental Midwest USA and not from routes that followed the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from Mexico. Populations of P. pruinosa west of the Rockies spread north from the warm deserts much more recently, showing two genetically differentiated populations with no admixture: one in California and the other one in eastern Great Basin. These bees have repeatedly endured severe bottlenecks as they colonized NA, following human spread of their Cucurbita pollen hosts during the Holocene.
Data from: Attracting mutualists and antagonists: plant trait variation explains the distribution of specialist floral herbivores and pollinators on crops and wild gourds
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Data from: Crop domestication facilitated rapid geographical expansion of a specialist pollinator, the squash bee Peponapis pruinosa
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