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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

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • 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

  • 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