Associations between floral specialization and species diversity: cause, effect, or correlation?

By W. S. Armbruster, Nathan Muchhala. Evolutionary Ecology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Survival and reproduction of plant species in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (2014, background): “This supports the alternative hypotheses that mechanical isolation does not directly contribute to angiosperm speciation and phenotypic diversification is simply a result rather than the cause of diversity (Armbruster & Muchhala, 2009).”
Origins of Plant Diversity in the California Floristic Province (2014, background): “…or habitat divergence, or in some cases driven by reproductive interference from distantly related plants, the involvement of floral and other reproductive changes in the evolution of biodiversity and ecological interactions is widely evident (Armbruster & Muchhala 2009, Kay & Sargent 2009).”
The role of frugivory in the diversification of bats in the Neotropics (2012, background): “The divergent use of the same pollinator by some plant genera is considered to be a mode of pollinator-driven diversification (Johnson, 2010) but is better explained by competition leading to character displacement (Armbruster & Muchhala, 2009).”
The specialization continuum in pollination systems: diversity of concepts and implications for ecology, evolution and conservation (2017, background): “…additional possible evolutionary mechanisms that can generate an association between specialization and clade diversity, and these have received attention only recently (e.g. Armbruster & Muchhala 2009; Armbruster 2014; Armbruster, Shi & Huang 2014b; Givnish et al. 2015; O’Meara et al. 2016).”
Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics (2011, background): “…and the exact mechanisms underlying floral specialisation, constitute a growing and promising field of Neotropical research (e.g., Kay & al., 2005; Muchhala, 2007; Muchhala & Potts, 2007; Tripp & Manos, 2008; Armbruster & Muchhala, 2009; Alcantara & Lohmann, 2010, 2011; Muchhala & al., 2010).”