Pollinator-mediated selection in a specialized hummingbird-Heliconia system in the Eastern Caribbean

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 347-356

  Temeles, E J ^a   Rah, Y J ^a   Andicoechea, J ^a   Byanova, K L ^a   Giller, G S J ^a   Stolk, S B ^a   Kress, W J ^b  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominica; Eastern Caribbean; Floral polymorphisms; Heliconia; Hummingbird; Lesser Antilles; Natural selection; Pollination

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POLYMORPHISM; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CENTRAL AMERICA; FEMALE; FLOWER; GENETIC SELECTION; HELICONIACEAE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CARIBBEAN REGION; FEMALE; FLOWERS; HELICONIACEAE; MALE; POLLINATION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

LESSER ANTILLES;

EULAMPIS JUGULARIS; HELICONIA; HELICONIA BIHAI; HELICONIA CARIBAEA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 84872618489     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12053     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Alexandersson, R. & Johnson, S.D. 2002. Pollinator-mediated selection on flower-tube length in a hawkmoth-pollinated, Gladiolus (Iridaceae). Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269: 631-635.
2. Anderson, B. & Johnson, S.D. 2008. The geographical mosaic of coevolution in a plant-pollinator mutualism. Evolution 62: 220-225.
3. Anderson, B., Alexandersson, R. & Johnson, S.D. 2010. Evolution and coexistence of pollination ecotypes in an African Gladiolus. Evolution 64: 960-972.
4. Arizmendi, M.C., Dominguez, C.A. & Dirzo, R. 1996. The role of an avian nectar robber and of hummingbird pollinators in the reproduction of two plant species. Funct. Ecol. 10: 119-127.
5. Becker, W.A. 1984. A Manual of Quantitative Genetics. Academic Enterprises, Pullman, Washington.
6. Berry, F. & Kress, W.J. 1991. Heliconia: An Identification Guide. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.
7. Bloch, D. & Erhardt, A. 2008. Selection toward shorter flowers by butterflies whose probosces are shorter than floral tubes. Ecology 89: 2453-2460.
8. Campbell, D.R., Waser, N.M. & Price, M.V. 1996. Mechanisms of hummingbird-mediated selection for flower-width in Ipomopsis aggregata. Ecology 77: 1463-1472.
9. Caruso, C.M. 2000. Competition for pollination influences selection on floral traits of Ipomopsis aggregata. Evolution 54: 1546-1557.
10. Darwin, C.R. 1862. On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing. John Murray, London.
11. Dayan, T. & Simberloff, D. 1994. Character displacement, sexual dimorphism, and morphological variation among British and Irish mustelids. Ecology 75: 1063-1073.
12. Endler, J.A. 1986. Natural Selection in the Wild. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
13. Faegri, K. & van der Pijl, L. 1966. The Principles of Pollination Ecology. Pergamon Press, New York.
14. Fairbairn, D.J. & Reeve, J.P. 2001. Natural selection. In: Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies (C.W. Fox, D.A. Roff & D.J. Fairbairn, eds), pp. 35-54. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK.
15. Falconer, D.S. & MacKay, T.F.C. 1996. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics, 4th edn. Longman, Essex, UK.
16. Fenster, C.B., Ambruster, W.S., Wilson, P., Dudash, M.R. & Thomson, J.D. 2004. Pollination syndromes and floral specialization. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 35: 375-403.
17. Foellmer, M.W. & Fairbairn, D.J. 2005. Competing dwarf males: sexual selection in an orb-weaving spider. J. Evol. Biol. 18: 629-641.
18. Gómez, J.M. 2000. Phenotypic selection and response to selection in Lobularia martima: importance of direct and correlational components of natural selection. J. Evol. Biol. 13: 689-699.
19. Gowda, V. 2009. Pollination biology and inter-island geographical variation in the mutualistic Heliconia (Heliconiaceae) - hummingbird (Trochilidae) interaction of the Eastern Caribbean Islands. Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.
20. Gowda, V. & Kress, W.J. 2012. A geographic mosaic of plant-pollinator interactions in the Eastern Caribbean islands. Biotropica, doi:10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00915.x.
21. Gowda, V., Temeles, E.J. & Kress, W.J. 2012. Territory fidelity to nectar sources by purple-throated caribs, Eulampis jugularis. Wilson J. Ornith. 124: 81-86.
22. Hurlbert, A.H., Hosoi, S.A., Temeles, E.J. & Ewald, P.W. 1996. Mobility of Impatiens capensis flowers: effect on pollen deposition and hummingbird foraging. Oecologia 105: 243-246.
23. Johnson, S.D. & Steiner, K.E. 1997. Long-tongued fly pollination and evolution of floral spur length in the Disa draconis complex (Orchidaceae). Evolution 51: 45-53.
24. Johnson, S.D. & Steiner, K.E. 2000. Generalization versus specialization in plant pollination systems. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15: 140-143.
25. Kress, W. J., Betancur, J. & Echeverry, B. 1999. Heliconias - Llamaradas de la Selva Colombiana. Cristina Uribe Editores, Bogotá, Colombia.
26. Lande, R. & Arnold, S.J. 1983. The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution 37: 1210-1226.
27. Maad, J. 2000. Phenotypic selection in hawkmoth-pollinated Platanthera bifolia: targets and fitness surfaces. Evolution 54: 112-123.
28. Maad, J. & Alexandersson, R. 2004. Variable selection in Platanthera bifolia (Orchidaceae): phenotypic selection differed between sex functions in a drought year. J. Evol. Biol. 17: 642-650.
29. Martén-Rodríguez, S., Kress, W.J., Temeles, E.J. & Mélendez-Ackerman, E. 2011. Plant-pollinator interactions and floral convergence in two species of Heliconia from the Caribbean islands. Oecologia 167: 1075-1083.
30. Muchhala, N. & Thomson, J.D. 2009. Going to great lengths: selection for long corolla tubes in an extremely specialized bat-flower mutualism. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 276: 2147-2152.
31. Muchhala, N., Brown, Z., Armbruster, W.S. & Potts, M.D. 2010. Competition drives specialization in pollination systems through costs to male fitness. Am. Nat. 176: 732-743.
32. Nattero, J., Sérsic, A.N. & Cocucci, A.A. 2010. Patterns of contemporary phenotypic selection and flower integration in the hummingbird-pollinated Nicotiana glauca between populations with different flower-pollinator combinations. Oikos 119: 852-863.
33. Nilsson, L.A. 1988. The evolution of flowers with deep corolla tubes. Nature 334: 147-149.
34. Pauw, A., Stofberg, J. & Waterman, R.J. 2008. Flies and flowers in Darwin's race. Evolution 63: 268-279.
35. Raffaele, H., Wiley, J., Garrido, O., Keith, A. & Raffaele, J. 1998. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
36. Rice, W.R. 1989. Analyzing tables of statistical tests. Evolution 43: 223-225.
37. Rodríguez-Gironés, M.A. & Santamaría, L. 2010. How foraging behaviour and resource partitioning can drive the evolution of flowers and the structure of pollination networks. Open Ecology Journal 3: 1-11.
38. Sandring, S. & Ågren, J. 2009. Pollinator-mediated selection on floral display and flowering time in the perennial herb Arabidopsis lyrata. Evolution 63: 1292-1300.
39. Schluter, D. 2000. The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK.
40. Schuchmann, K.-L. 1999. Family Trochilidae (hummingbirds). In: Handbook of the Birds of the World, vol. 5. Barn Owls to Hummingbirds (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal, eds), pp. 468-680. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.
41. Sletvold, N. & Ågren, J. 2010. Pollinator-mediated selection on floral display and spur length in the orchid Gymnadenia conopsea. Int. J. Plant Sci. 171: 999-1009.
42. Temeles, E.J. 1996. A new dimension to hummingbird - flower relationships. Oecologia 105: 517-523.
43. Temeles, E.J. & Kress, W.J. 2003. Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association. Science 300: 630-633.
44. Temeles, E.J. & Kress, W.J. 2010. Mate choice and mate competition by a tropical hummingbird at a floral resource. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 277: 1607-1613.
45. Temeles, E.J. & Rankin, A.G. 2000. Effect of the lower lip of Monarda didyma on pollen removal by hummingbirds. Can. J. Bot. 78: 1164-1168.
46. Temeles, E.J. & Roberts, W.M. 1993. Effect of sexual dimorphism in bill length on foraging behavior: an experimental analysis of hummingbirds. Oecologia 94: 87-94.
47. Temeles, E.J., Pan, I.L., Brennan, J.L. & Horwitt, J.N. 2000. Evidence for ecological causation of sexual dimorphism in a hummingbird. Science 289: 441-443.
48. Temeles, E.J., Muir, A.B., Slutsky, E.B. & Vitousek, M.N. 2004. Effect of food reductions on territorial behavior of purple-throated caribs, Eulampis jugularis. Condor 106: 691-695.
49. Temeles, E.J., Goldman, R.S. & Kudla, A.U. 2005. Foraging and territory economics of sexually-dimorphic Purple-throated Caribs, Eulampis jugularis, at three heliconias. Auk 122: 187-204.
50. Temeles, E.J., Shaw, K.C., Kudla, A.U. & Sander, S.E. 2006. Traplining by purple-throated carib hummingbirds: behavioral responses to competition and nectar availability. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 61: 163-172.
51. Temeles, E.J., Koulouris, C.R., Sander, S.E. & Kress, W.J. 2009. Effect of flower shape and size on foraging performance and trade-offs in a tropical hummingbird. Ecology 90: 1147-1161.
52. Wallace, A.R. 1867. Creation by law. Q. J. Sci. 140: 471-486.
53. Wolf, L.L. 1975. Female territoriality in the purple-throated carib. Auk 92: 511-522.