Ecological fitting is a sufficient driver of tight interactions between sunbirds and ornithophilous plants
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F20%3A43901232" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/20:43901232 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/20:00534574 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10415059
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ece3.5942" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ece3.5942</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5942" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.5942</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ecological fitting is a sufficient driver of tight interactions between sunbirds and ornithophilous plants
Original language description
Plant-bird pollination interactions evolved independently on different continents. Specific adaptations can lead to their restriction when potential partners from distant evolutionary trajectories come into contact. Alternatively, these interactions can be enabled by convergent evolution and subsequent ecological fitting. We studied the interactions between New World plants from the genus Heliconia, Asian plants of genus Etlingera and African sunbirds on a local farm in Cameroon. Heliconia spp. evolved together with hummingbirds and Etlingera spp. with spiderhunters -an oriental subgroup of the sunbird family. Sunbirds fed on all studied plants and individual plant species were visited by a different sunbird spectrum. We experimentally documented a higher number of germinated pollen grains in sunbird-visited flowers of Etlingera spp. For Heliconia spp., this experiment was not successful and pollen tubes were rarely observed, even in hand-pollinated flowers, where enough pollen was deposited. The analyses of contacts with plant reproductive organs nevertheless confirmed that sunbirds are good pollen vectors for both Heliconia and Etlingera species. Our study demonstrated a high ecological fit between actors of distinct evolutionary history and the general validity of bird-pollination syndrome. We moreover show that trait matching and niche differentiation are important ecological processes also in semi-artificial plant-pollinator systems.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-10781S" target="_blank" >GA18-10781S: Organization of Afrotropical plant-bird pollination communities: the effects of altitude and seasonality</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1784-1793
UT code for WoS article
000511023900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85079062754