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Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality

BACKGROUND: In the obligate plant/pollinator mutualism, pollinator abundance is conditioned by the host resource. In order to investigate the population fluctuation of pollinating wasps and the phenological processes involved, this study examined the dual dynamics of the pollinator and the syconium...

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Autores principales: Yang, Hui-Wen, Tzeng, Hsy-Yu, Chou, Lien-Siang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5430316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28510855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-54-11
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author Yang, Hui-Wen
Tzeng, Hsy-Yu
Chou, Lien-Siang
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Tzeng, Hsy-Yu
Chou, Lien-Siang
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description BACKGROUND: In the obligate plant/pollinator mutualism, pollinator abundance is conditioned by the host resource. In order to investigate the population fluctuation of pollinating wasps and the phenological processes involved, this study examined the dual dynamics of the pollinator and the syconium phenology of a seasonal fruited fig tree population, Ficus microparpa, in Taipei, Taiwan. RESULTS: Our results revealed three seasons in the annual phenology: spring crop, summer-fall crop and winter trough seasons. The syconium quantity was correlated most significantly with temperature based on the generalized linear model with the meteorological data transformed by a principal component analysis. The pollinator population showed an increasing trend in spring, reached the maximum abundance in summer, and then declined drastically in winter, consistent with the syconium production fluctuation. With the small amount of local pollinators from the winter syconia and potential immigrating foundresses from other populations, the pollinator population size can increase very quickly from almost zero to over 40,000 wasps for this 29-tree local population within a season. CONCLUSION: This syconium phenological scheme, coupled with the fast-recovery rate of pollinators, may explain the worldwide adaptation and invasion of Ficus microcarpa. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1999-3110-54-11) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-54303162017-05-30 Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality Yang, Hui-Wen Tzeng, Hsy-Yu Chou, Lien-Siang Bot Stud Research BACKGROUND: In the obligate plant/pollinator mutualism, pollinator abundance is conditioned by the host resource. In order to investigate the population fluctuation of pollinating wasps and the phenological processes involved, this study examined the dual dynamics of the pollinator and the syconium phenology of a seasonal fruited fig tree population, Ficus microparpa, in Taipei, Taiwan. RESULTS: Our results revealed three seasons in the annual phenology: spring crop, summer-fall crop and winter trough seasons. The syconium quantity was correlated most significantly with temperature based on the generalized linear model with the meteorological data transformed by a principal component analysis. The pollinator population showed an increasing trend in spring, reached the maximum abundance in summer, and then declined drastically in winter, consistent with the syconium production fluctuation. With the small amount of local pollinators from the winter syconia and potential immigrating foundresses from other populations, the pollinator population size can increase very quickly from almost zero to over 40,000 wasps for this 29-tree local population within a season. CONCLUSION: This syconium phenological scheme, coupled with the fast-recovery rate of pollinators, may explain the worldwide adaptation and invasion of Ficus microcarpa. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1999-3110-54-11) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5430316/ /pubmed/28510855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-54-11 Text en © Yang et al.; licensee Springer. 2013 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Chou, Lien-Siang
Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title_full Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title_fullStr Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title_full_unstemmed Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title_short Phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of Ficus microcarpa L.f.: adaptation to seasonality
title_sort phenology and pollinating wasp dynamics of ficus microcarpa l.f.: adaptation to seasonality
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5430316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28510855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1999-3110-54-11
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