期刊
OECOLOGIA
卷 199, 期 1, 页码 1-12出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05103-6
关键词
Mixed pollination system; Pollination syndrome; Hummingbirds; Pollen deposition; Plant reproduction
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资金
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais [APQ-00756-19, RED-00253-16, APQ-00932-21]
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-Brasil [88887.626004/2021-00, 88887.352134/2019-00]
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [165548/2020-7, 423939/2021-1, 400904/2019-5]
Floral traits play a role in determining the effectiveness of different animal pollinators along a generalization/specialization continuum. This study investigates the contributions of hummingbirds to the pollination of various plant species in the Brazilian grasslands. The results suggest that hummingbirds can contribute to pollination independently of the fit to bird pollination syndrome, highlighting their importance as under-appreciated generalized pollinators in certain communities.
Floral traits mediate the roles of distinct animals as effective pollinators along a generalization/specialization continuum. Many plant species are visited by different pollinator functional groups and the specific contribution of each group is expected to reflect the set of floral characteristics defined by pollination syndromes. Although considered a highly specialized nectarivorous group, hummingbirds frequently visit flowers lacking apparent specialization to bird pollination. How they contribute to the reproduction of these plants, however, has not been evaluated through field experiments considering multiple non-related plant species simultaneously. Here, we investigated hummingbirds' contributions to the pollination of ten plant species comprising a gradient of adaptation to bird pollination in the Brazilian rupestrian grasslands. We excluded hummingbirds from flowers and evaluated their relative contribution in comparison to insects (mainly bees) on conspecific/heterospecific pollen deposition and fruit set. Floral traits that are typically associated with bird pollination were associated with increased pollen deposition, but not with fruit set in the presence of hummingbirds. With hummingbirds, conspecific and heterospecific pollen deposition increased in most species, while fruit set increased in four plant species with varying degrees of fit to ornithophily. Our results show that assessing the relative contribution of specific pollinator groups may depend on when this contribution is measured, i.e. pollen deposition or fruit set. Considering fruit set, our results indicate that hummingbirds contributed to plant reproduction independently of the fit to bird pollination syndrome. This emphasizes their importance as under-appreciated generalized pollinators in some communities.
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