Bird pollination syndrome is the plant’s adaptation to ornithophily, but nectarivorous birds are not so selective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F21%3A00543418" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/21:00543418 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431373
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.08052" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.08052</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.08052" target="_blank" >10.1111/oik.08052</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bird pollination syndrome is the plant’s adaptation to ornithophily, but nectarivorous birds are not so selective
Original language description
Many tropical plants are pollinated by birds and several bird phylogenetical lineages have specialised to a nectar diet. The long-assumed, intimate ecological and evolutionary relationship between ornithophilous plants and phenotypically specialised nectarivorous birds has nevertheless been questioned in recent decades, where such plant-pollinator interactions have been shown to be highly generalised. nIn our study, we analysed two extensive interaction datasets: bird-flower and insect-flower interactions, both collected on Mt Cameroon, west-central Africa. We tested if: 1) insects and birds interact with distinct groups of plants, 2) plants with a typical set of ornithophilous floral traits (i.e. bird pollination syndrome) interact mainly with birds, 3) birds favour plants with bird pollination syndrome and, 4) if and how the individual floral traits and plant level nectar production predict bird visitation. nBird-visited plants were typically also visited by insects, while approximately half of the plants were visited by insects only. We confirmed the validity of the bird pollination syndrome hypothesis, as plants with bird-pollination syndrome traits were visited by birds at a higher rate and mostly hosted a lower frequency of visiting insects. However, these ornithophilous plants were not more attractive than the other plants for nectar-feeding birds. Nectar production per plant individual was a better predictor of bird visitation than any other floral trait traditionally related to the bird pollination syndrome. Our study thus demonstrated the highly asymmetrical relationship between ornithophilous plants and nectarivorous birds.
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
10615 - Ornithology
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
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Oikos
ISSN
0030-1299
e-ISSN
1600-0706
Volume of the periodical
130
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1411-1424
UT code for WoS article
000661133400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85107724188