Flower colours along an alpine altitude gradient, seen through the eyes of fly and bee pollinators

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Survival and reproduction of plant species in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (2014, background): “Arnold et al. (2009) found that an association between time and floral color is indeed present in Norway, but only for human color categories, and that the pattern is largely due to phylogenic effects (i.e., plants of the same family are more likely to flower at the same time and have similar…”
Flies and Flowers II: Floral Attractants and Rewards (2014, background): “These categories are determined by the superior excitation of one of the two photoreceptor cells in each tandem and can be regarded as fly-blue, UV, fly-green and fly purple (Arnold et al. 2009).”