Multiple meanings and modes: on the many ways to be a generalist flower

By J. Ollerton, A. Killick, E. Lamborn, Stella Watts, Margaret Whiston. 2007

306 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Ollerton
2. S. Martén-Rodríguez
3. W. S. Armbruster
4. C. Fenster
5. Anne S. Leonard
6. Matthias Schleuning
7. P. Maruyama
8. A. Moles

In Plant Science

1. S. Martén-Rodríguez
2. J. Ollerton
3. C. Fenster
4. W. S. Armbruster
5. P. Maruyama
6. Abel Almarales‐Castro
7. A. Moles
8. Anne S. Leonard

Citations in the corpus

• Associations between floral specialization and species diversity: cause, effect, or correlation? (2008, background): “A related concept is phenotypic specialization, referring to morphological and other phenotypic traits of flowers that enforce restrictive pollination (Ollerton et al. 2007).”
• Evaluation of pollination syndromes in Antillean Gesneriaceae: evidence for bat, hummingbird and generalized flowers (2009, background): “These observations have led some authors to question the validity of the pollination syndrome concept (Waser et al. 1996; Ollerton et al. 2007).”
• The specialization continuum in pollination systems: diversity of concepts and implications for ecology, evolution and conservation (2017, background): “the ‘usual’ form (Ollerton et al. 2007), thus representing an evolved response apparently to selection for specialization.”
• ‘X’ marks the spot: The possible benefits of nectar guides to bees and plants (2011, background): “Apart from promoting visitation of a particular pollinator species via reduced handling time (e.g. bees, as documented in this experiment), easily accessed nectar might also broaden the range of potential pollinators (Ollerton et al. 2007).”
• Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks (2017, background): “Community-level specialization quantified by these metrics is associated with the concept of ecological specialization (sensu Ollerton et al., 2007) and the realized Eltonian niche (Devictor et al., 2010), where interactions are treated as one dimension of the ecological niche and the degree of…”
• Nectar‐feeding bird and bat niches in two worlds: pantropical comparisons of vertebrate pollination systems (2008, background): “These terms have been widely discussed in the recent literature (e.g. Waser et al., 1996; Armbruster et al., 2000; Johnson & Steiner, 2000; Fenster et al., 2004; Armbruster, 2006; Ollerton et al., 2006, 2007), and several types of specialization need to be distinguished.”
• Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea? (2016, background): “At least some of the disagreements in the literature stem from different definitions of terms such as ‘specialized’ and ‘generalized’ (Ollerton et al. 2007).”