TY - JOUR
T1 - Floral nectar
T2 - pollinator attraction or manipulation?
AU - Pyke, Graham H.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - The literature suggests that floral nectar acts principally to attract pollinator visitation (and/or revisitation), thereby enhancing plant reproductive success. However, floral nectar also manipulates pollinator behaviour during and immediately following plant visits, affecting pollen transfer, and plant reproduction. I argue that floral nectar should really be viewed as a pollinator manipulant rather than attractant, thus potentially explaining why its concentration is not generally high and why it decreases with increasing pollinator body size. Otherwise, such patterns may remain mysterious and unexplained.
AB - The literature suggests that floral nectar acts principally to attract pollinator visitation (and/or revisitation), thereby enhancing plant reproductive success. However, floral nectar also manipulates pollinator behaviour during and immediately following plant visits, affecting pollen transfer, and plant reproduction. I argue that floral nectar should really be viewed as a pollinator manipulant rather than attractant, thus potentially explaining why its concentration is not generally high and why it decreases with increasing pollinator body size. Otherwise, such patterns may remain mysterious and unexplained.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960517160&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.013
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2016.02.013
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 26987770
AN - SCOPUS:84960517160
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 31
SP - 339
EP - 341
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 5
ER -