Differences in Nectar Traits between Ornithophilous and Entomophilous Plants on Mount Cameroon

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00543425 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431202

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/6/1161" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/10/6/1161</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10061161" target="_blank" >10.3390/plants10061161</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Differences in Nectar Traits between Ornithophilous and Entomophilous Plants on Mount Cameroon

Original language description

Despite a growing number of studies, the role of pollinators as a selection agent for nectar traits remains unclear. Moreover, the lack of data from some biogeographic regions prohibits us from determining their general importance and global patterns. We analyzed nectar carbohydrate traits and determined the main pollinators of 66 plant species in the tropical forests of Mount Cameroon (tropical West Africa). The measured nectar traits included total sugar amounts and proportions of sucrose and hexoses (i.e., glucose and fructose). We report the nectar properties for plants visited by five pollinator groups (bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies, and specialized birds). Our results indicate that, rather than specific evolution in each of the five plant groups, there was a unique nectar-trait evolution in plants pollinated by specialized birds. The ornithophilous plants had a higher proportion of sucrose and produced larger sugar amounts than the plants pollinated by insects. We also demonstrated a significant phylogenetic signal in the nectar properties in some lineages of the studied plants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plants-Basel

ISSN

2223-7747

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000666747000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85107367959