Experimental evidence of pollination in marine flowers by invertebrate fauna

Tussenbroek, Brigitta I. van; Villamil, Nora; Márquez‐Guzmán, Judith; Wong, Ricardo; Monroy-Velázquez, Luz Verónica; Solís‐Weiss, Vivianne

doi:10.1038/ncomms12980

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“…abiotic and biotic environment) constraints which may have prevented floral diversification despite species diversification. Finally, the investigation of ‘new’ plant groups whose pollination biology is understudied may lead to exciting discoveries of novel pollination systems and associated floral trait changes such as pollination by marine invertebrates (van Tussenbroek et al ., 2016) or pollinator shifts in functionally highly specialised systems (Dellinger et al ., 2019a).…”

Section: A Critical Review Of the Pollination‐syndrome Literature Fromentioning

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Pollination syndromes in the 21^stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

2020

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Pollination syndromes, recurring suites of floral traits appearing in connection with specific functional pollinator groups, have served for decades to organise floral diversity under a functional-ecological perspective. Some potential caveats, such as oversimplification of complex plant-animal interactions or lack of empirical observations, have been identified and discussed in recent years. Which of these caveats do indeed cause problems, which have been solved and where do future possibilities lie? I address these questions in a review of the pollination-syndrome literature of 2010 to 2019. I show that the majority of studies was based on detailed empirical pollinator observations and could reliably predict pollinators based on a few floral traits such as colour, shape or reward. Some traits (i.e. colour) were less reliable in predicting pollinators than others (i.e. reward, corolla width), however. I stress that future studies should consider floral traits beyond those traditionally recorded to expand our understanding of mechanisms of floral evolution. I discuss statistical methods suitable for objectively analysing the interplay of system-specific evolutionary constraints, pollinator-mediated selection and adaptive trade-offs at microecological and macroecological scales. I exemplify my arguments on an empirical dataset of floral traits of a neotropical plant radiation in the family Melastomataceae.

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Section: A Critical Review Of the Pollination‐syndrome Literature Fromentioning

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Pollination syndromes in the 21^stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

2020

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“…Pollinators, however, are exceptionally rare in aquatic systems (Strathmann 1990; but see van Tussenbroek et al. 2016), with gamete transfer primarily occurring via water currents, diffusion, or copulatory structures in marine organisms (Strathmann 1990; Vermeij and Grosberg 2017). Because distributions of outcrossing rates vary in plants with biotic or wind pollination (Goodwillie et al.…”

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Inbreeding shapes the evolution of marine invertebrates

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Inbreeding is a potent evolutionary force shaping the distribution of genetic variation within and among populations of plants and animals. Yet, our understanding of the forces shaping the expression and evolution of nonrandom mating in general, and inbreeding in particular, remains remarkably incomplete. Most research on plant mating systems focuses on self-fertilization and its consequences for automatic selection, inbreeding depression, purging, and reproductive assurance, whereas studies of animal mating systems have often assumed that inbreeding is rare, and that natural selection favors traits that promote outbreeding. Given that many sessile and sedentary marine invertebrates and marine macroalgae share key life history features with seed plants (e.g., low mobility, modular construction, and the release of gametes into the environment), their mating systems may be similar. Here, we show that published estimates of inbreeding coefficients (F IS ) for sessile and sedentary marine organisms are similar and at least as high as noted in terrestrial seed plants. We also found that variation in F IS within invertebrates is related to the potential to selffertilize, disperse, and choose mates. The similarity of F IS for these organismal groups suggests that inbreeding could play a larger role in the evolution of sessile and sedentary marine organisms than is currently recognized. Specifically, associations between traits of marine invertebrates and F IS suggest that inbreeding could drive evolutionary transitions between hermaphroditism and separate sexes, direct development and multiphasic life cycles, and external and internal fertilization.

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“…The majority of flowering plants rely on animals for pollination; they attract pollinators by providing a food source (such as nectar), and their pollen is picked up or deposited by the pollinators as they feed (Abrol 2012). Pollinator/spore disperser attraction is also found in cycads (e.g., Terry et al 2007, Marler 2010, mosses (Marino et al 2009), sea grasses (van Tussenbroek et al 2016), and fungi (e.g., Horton 2017, Elliot et al 2019, Suetsugu et al 2019. Similarly, over half of trees in both tropical and temperate forests produce fruit to attract consumers, which then can serve as seed dispersers (Howe and Smallwood 1982).…”

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Let's move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism

Shaw

Narayanan

Stanton

2021

Ecology

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Movement is a widespread behavior across organisms and is driven in part by interspecific interactions. Generally, negative interspecific interactions (such as competition and natural enemies) are more often studied in the context of movement than positive interactions (mutualism). Mutualistic relationships are incredibly common, yet only a subset are studied in the context of movement (transportation mutualisms). Overall, the costs and benefits that an individual experiences are shaped both by their movement behavior and their mutualistic relationships, as well as the intersection between these. Here we argue that the intersection between movement behavior and mutualistic relationships is understudied, and we present a conceptual framework to synthesize the links between movement and mutualisms and give examples of species that exhibit each. Our framework serves both to highlight the ways that mutualism can shape movement (and vice versa) and to draw parallels across different organisms (enabling a more abstract perspective of these biological systems, complementing the system-focused perspective). Finally, we show how considering movement in light of mutualisms (and vice versa) presents a number of new research questions to be answered by each empirical and theoretical approach going forward.

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Experimental evidence of pollination in marine flowers by invertebrate fauna

Cited by 40 publications

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Pollination syndromes in the 21^stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

Pollination syndromes in the 21^stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

Inbreeding shapes the evolution of marine invertebrates

Let's move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism

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Experimental evidence of pollination in marine flowers by invertebrate fauna

Cited by 40 publications

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Pollination syndromes in the 21stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

Pollination syndromes in the 21stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

Inbreeding shapes the evolution of marine invertebrates

Let's move out together: a framework for the intersections between movement and mutualism

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Pollination syndromes in the 21^stcentury: where do we stand and where may we go?

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