Optimality modeling and fitness trade‐offs: when should plants become pollinator specialists?

By P. Aigner. 2001

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

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Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen (2011, background): “Functional Ecology 2011 British Ecological Society pollination efficiency become functional flower parasites and often considerably decrease pollination success (Wilson & Thomson 1991; Aigner 2001; Thomson 2003).”
Nectar‐feeding bird and bat niches in two worlds: pantropical comparisons of vertebrate pollination systems (2008, unknown): “For example, Aigner (2001) pointed out that a flower pollinated primarily by hummingbirds may evolve phenotypic specializations to bees as long as this does not reduce the effectiveness of hummingbirds; in this case, phenotypic specialization leads to ecological generalization (i.e. to an increase…”
Start making scents: the challenge of integrating chemistry into pollination ecology (2008, background): “Syndromes to the contrary, Aigner & Scott (2002) observed that hummingbirds forage opportunistically from the wild tobacco, N. attenuata , a scented, night-blooming plant visited and pollinated by hawkmoths (Sime & Baldwin, 2003). Current dogma suggests that floral volatiles should be irrelevant to ”
Pollination Syndromes and Floral Specialization (2004, background): “Aigner (2001) has shown how floral characters might evolve to the net selection pressures exerted by two or more pollinators.”
Explaining Evolutionary Shifts between Bee and Hummingbird Pollination: Convergence, Divergence, and Directionality (2008, background): “Aigner (2001, 2004, 2006) has carefully discussed the trade-off assumption, studying natural variation, doing experiments with manipulated phenotypes, and using graphical models.”
The specialization continuum in pollination systems: diversity of concepts and implications for ecology, evolution and conservation (2017, background): “One insight gained from studies of pollination trade-offs is that ecological specialization is more likely to evolve when there are strong trade-offs in pollinator effectiveness (e.g. Wilson & Thomson 1996; Aigner 2001; Muchhala 2007; Kay & Sargent 2009).”
A multivariate search for pollination syndromes among penstemons (2004, background): “By this view, there should be pervasive forces against adaptations that exclude some pollinators over others, and there is an expectation that a large proportion of plant species ought to be generalists (Waser et al. 1996, Aigner 2001).”
Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review (2016, background): “Predominantly, insect-pollinated species have different degrees of specialization depending on the insects involved (Aigner 2001; Shuttleworth and Johnson 2008).”