Climate can indirectly affect floral morphology within a species by affecting what pollinators will visit those flowers across its range.
Tag - floral visitors
Erin Zimmerman
Butterflies visit more frequently, but bees are better pollinators: the importance of mouthpart dimensions in effective pollen removal and deposition
Pollination studies often use visitation frequency of potential pollinators as an indicator of their importance, but this is only one component and may not reflect actual pollen-transfer rates. In a recent study...
AoBPLANTS
Halloween Special: First record of bat-pollination in Tillandsia
Bats are responsible for pollinating several species of plants. A new paper in Annals of Botany reports for the first time bat-pollination of a species in the genus Tillandsia. Bromeliaceae is a species-rich neotropical...
AJ Cann