Do pollinator distributions underlie the evolution of pollination ecotypes in the Cape shrub Erica plukenetii?

Annals of Botany

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 301-315

  Van Der Niet, Timotheüs ^a,b,c   Pirie, Michael D ^d,e   Shuttleworth, Adam ^f   Johnson, Steven D ^f   Midgley, Jeremy J ^c  

^a NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ancestral character state; benzene propanoids; bird pollination; Cape flora; Erica plukenetii; floral scent; floral trait; Helicoverpa armigera; niche; phylogeny; pollination ecotype; speciation

Indexed keywords

CAPE FLORISTIC REGION; COLONIZATION; ECOTYPE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FLORAL TRAIT; MOTH; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; SHRUB; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

SOUTH AFRICA;

CARBOHYDRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BENZENE PROPANOIDS; BIRD; BIRD POLLINATION; CAPE FLORA; ECOTYPE; ERICA PLUKENETII; ERICACEAE; EVOLUTION; FLORAL SCENT; FLORAL TRAIT; FLOWER; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HISTOLOGY; MOTH; NECTAR; NICHE; ODOR; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; PLESIOMORPHY; POLLINATION; POLLINATION ECOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANCESTRAL CHARACTER STATE; BENZENE PROPANOIDS; BIRD POLLINATION; CAPE FLORA; ERICA PLUKENETII; FLORAL SCENT; FLORAL TRAIT; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; NICHE; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION ECOTYPE; SPECIATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CARBOHYDRATES; ECOTYPE; ERICACEAE; FLOWERS; MOTHS; ODORS; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PLANT NECTAR; POLLINATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84892708367     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct193     Document Type: Article

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