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- Title
Natural history matters: how biological constraints shape diversified interactions in pollination networks.
- Authors
Jordano, Pedro; Hays, Graeme
- Abstract
Species-specific traits and life-history characteristics constrain the ways organisms interact in nature. For example, gape-limited predators are constrained in the sizes of prey they can handle and efficiently consume. When we consider the ubiquity of such constrains, it is evident how hard it can be to be a generalist partner in ecological interactions: a free-living animal or plant cannot simply interact with every available partner it encounters. Some pairwise interactions among coexisting species simply do not occur; they are impossible to observe despite the fact that partners coexist in the same place. Sazatornil et al. (2016) explore the nature of such constraints in the mutualisms among hawkmoths and the plants they pollinate. In this iconic interaction, used by Darwin and Wallace to vividly illustrate the power of natural selection in shaping evolutionary change, both pollinators and plants are sharply constrained in their interaction modes and outcomes.
- Subjects
NATURAL history; POLLINATION; SPHINGIDAE; INSECT-plant relationships; NATURAL selection; PLANTS
- Publication
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2016, Vol 85, Issue 6, p1423
- ISSN
0021-8790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1365-2656.12584