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Floral advertisement scent in a changing plant-pollinators market

Plant-pollinator systems may be considered as biological markets in which pollinators choose between different flowers that advertise their nectar/pollen rewards. Although expected to play a major role in structuring plant-pollinator interactions, community-wide patterns of flower scent signals rema...

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Autores principales: Filella, Iolanda, Primante, Clara, Llusià, Joan, Martín González, Ana M., Seco, Roger, Farré-Armengol, Gerard, Rodrigo, Anselm, Bosch, Jordi, Peñuelas, Josep
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03434
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author Filella, Iolanda
Primante, Clara
Llusià, Joan
Martín González, Ana M.
Seco, Roger
Farré-Armengol, Gerard
Rodrigo, Anselm
Bosch, Jordi
Peñuelas, Josep
author_facet Filella, Iolanda
Primante, Clara
Llusià, Joan
Martín González, Ana M.
Seco, Roger
Farré-Armengol, Gerard
Rodrigo, Anselm
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description Plant-pollinator systems may be considered as biological markets in which pollinators choose between different flowers that advertise their nectar/pollen rewards. Although expected to play a major role in structuring plant-pollinator interactions, community-wide patterns of flower scent signals remain largely unexplored. Here we show for the first time that scent advertisement is higher in plant species that bloom early in the flowering period when pollinators are scarce relative to flowers than in species blooming later in the season when there is a surplus of pollinators relative to flowers. We also show that less abundant flowering species that may compete with dominant species for pollinator visitation early in the flowering period emit much higher proportions of the generalist attractant β-ocimene. Overall, we provide a first community-wide description of the key role of seasonal dynamics of plant-specific flower scent emissions, and reveal the coexistence of contrasting plant signaling strategies in a plant-pollinator market.
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spelling pubmed-38521392013-12-05 Floral advertisement scent in a changing plant-pollinators market Filella, Iolanda Primante, Clara Llusià, Joan Martín González, Ana M. Seco, Roger Farré-Armengol, Gerard Rodrigo, Anselm Bosch, Jordi Peñuelas, Josep Sci Rep Article Plant-pollinator systems may be considered as biological markets in which pollinators choose between different flowers that advertise their nectar/pollen rewards. Although expected to play a major role in structuring plant-pollinator interactions, community-wide patterns of flower scent signals remain largely unexplored. Here we show for the first time that scent advertisement is higher in plant species that bloom early in the flowering period when pollinators are scarce relative to flowers than in species blooming later in the season when there is a surplus of pollinators relative to flowers. We also show that less abundant flowering species that may compete with dominant species for pollinator visitation early in the flowering period emit much higher proportions of the generalist attractant β-ocimene. Overall, we provide a first community-wide description of the key role of seasonal dynamics of plant-specific flower scent emissions, and reveal the coexistence of contrasting plant signaling strategies in a plant-pollinator market. Nature Publishing Group 2013-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3852139/ /pubmed/24305624 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03434 Text en Copyright © 2013, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24305624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03434
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