🌸Takeaway: In Aquilegia, nectar-collecting pollinators appear to be the main evolutionary drivers of floral form, perhaps because they’re more efficient pollinators. (9/9)
#FloralSyndromes #PollinationBiology #PlantEvolution #PlantScience #AoBpapers
🌸Just published in @AnnBot : “Floral syndromes in Aquilegia (Ranunculaceae) are associated with nectar- but not pollen-collecting pollinators” by Anna-Sophie Hawranek and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)
#FloralSyndromes #PollinationBiology #PlantEvolution #EvolutionaryBiology #PlantScience #AoBpapers
🆕 The new issue of Annals of Botany is now online!
🌱 How leaf-dwelling fungi can reshape soil chemistry
🌬️ Why some wind-pollinated plants evolved grass-like traits
🔥 How plants recover after fire, drought, and salinity
and more…
New issue👉 https://botany.fyi/bep8tb
#plantscience #botany #plantbiology #soilmicrobiome #plantfungi #pollinationbiology #windpollination
#plantecology #plantadaptation #stresstolerance #fireecology
🌼 Usia flies uphold the distylous balance in Linum narbonense, while less efficient visitors may disrupt it, subtly biasing floral function and shaping plant reproduction. (10/10)
🌸Check the newly published article ‘Contrasting effects of pollinators on the pollination success of floral morphs of a distylous bowl-shaped flower’ in @AnnBot by Javier Valverde 🧵(1/10)
💡 Even short-term mismatches in plant–pollinator timing can shape complex and fluctuating selection patterns, maintaining floral trait diversity and possibly slowing evolutionary change. (7/7)
🐝🌸Join us to explore the newly published paper “Evolutionary consequences of flowering–pollinator asynchrony: The case of a floral oil-producing plant and its oil-collecting bees” in @AnnBot by Liedson Tavares Carneiro and co-authors. (1/7)
👉 https://academic.oup.com/aob/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/aob/mcaf126
🌺🦋🐝Flowers aren’t just pretty, they’re shaped by the ecological dance between plant and pollinator. And sometimes, that dance leads to spectacular diversity. (8/8)
#FloralEvolution #PollinationBiology #OrchidResearch #PlantScience #AoBpapers
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