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Scented nectar and the challenge of measuring honest signals in pollination
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- Burdon, Rosalie, 1988- (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Växtekologi och evolution
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- Raguso, Robert A. (författare)
- Cornell Univ, Dept Neurobiol & Behav, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA.
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- Gegear, Robert J. (författare)
- Univ Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dept Biol, Dartmouth, MA USA.
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- Pierce, Ellen C. (författare)
- Univ Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dept Biol, Dartmouth, MA USA.
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- Kessler, Andre (författare)
- Cornell Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ithaca, NY USA.
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- Parachnowitsch, Amy L. (författare)
- Uppsala universitet,Växtekologi och evolution,Uppsala Univ, Evolutionary Biol Ctr, Dept Plant Ecol & Evolut, Uppsala, Sweden.;Univ New Brunswick, Dept Biol, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
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- 2020-06-25
- 2020
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Journal of Ecology. - : WILEY. - 0022-0477 .- 1365-2745. ; 108:5, s. 2132-2144
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Abstract
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- Nectar scents are thought to function as honest signals of reward used by pollinators, but this hypothesis has rarely been tested. UsingPenstemon digitalis, we examined honest signalling of the nectar volatile (S)-(+)-linalool and pollinator responses to linalool in both field and laboratory settings. Because our previous work showed that linalool emission was associated with higher female fitness and that nectar is scented with linalool, we hypothesized that linalool was an honest signal of nectar reward. To assess honesty, we measured linalool-nectar associations including nectar volume, sugar amount, concentration and production rate for inflorescences and flowers in several populations. We also assessed whetherBombus impatiens, the main pollinator ofP. digitalisat our sites, can use linalool as a foraging signal. We supplemented real or artificial flowers in the field and laboratory with varying linalool-nectar combinations to measure pollinator behavioural responses. We found that an inflorescence's linalool emissions could be used to predict nectar rewards inP. digitalis, but this was driven by indirect associations with display size rather than directly advertising more profitable flowers. For flowers within inflorescences there was also no evidence for an association between signal and reward. Field tests of bumblebee behaviour were inconclusive. However, in laboratory assays, bumblebees generally used variation in linalool emissions to choose more profitable flowers, demonstrating they can detect differences in linalool emitted byP. digitalisand associate them with reward profitability. These results suggest experiments that decouple display size, scent and reward are necessary to assess whether (and when) bees prefer higher linalool emissions. Bees preferred nectars with lower linalool concentrations when linalool flavoured the nectar solution, suggesting the potential for conflicting pressures on scent emission in the field. Synthesis. Our results highlight the challenges of assessing function for traits important to fitness and suggest that the perception of floral signalling honesty may depend on whether pollinators use inflorescences or flowers within inflorescences when making foraging decisions. We conclude that future research on honest signalling in flowering plants, as well as its connection to phenotypic selection, should explicitly define honesty, in theoretical and experimental contexts.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Evolutionsbiologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Evolutionary Biology (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- floral volatile
- foraging
- function
- inflorescences
- linalool
- plant-pollinator interactions
- pollinator behaviour
- protandry
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