Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island ...
We studied biotically pollinated angiosperms on Macquarie Island, a remote site in the Southern Ocean with a predominately or exclusively dipteran pollinator fauna, in an effort to understand how flower colour affects community assembly. We compared a distinctive group of cream-green Macquarie Islan...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d |
| Summary: | We studied biotically pollinated angiosperms on Macquarie Island, a remote site in the Southern Ocean with a predominately or exclusively dipteran pollinator fauna, in an effort to understand how flower colour affects community assembly. We compared a distinctive group of cream-green Macquarie Island flowers to the flora of likely source pools of immigrants and to a continental flora from a high latitude in the northern hemisphere. We used both dipteran and hymenopteran colour models and phylogenetically informed analyses to explore the chromatic component of community assembly. The species with cream-green flowers are very restricted in colour space models of both fly vision and bee vision and represent a distinct group that plays a very minor role in other communities. It is unlikely that such a community could form through random immigration from continental source pools. Our findings suggest that fly pollination has imposed a strong ecological filter on Macquarie Island, favouring floral colours that are ... : ShresthaM_etal_reflect_spectraFly and Bee colour coordinate plus raw reflectance spectra used in this paperShresthaM_etal.nexNexus file of phylogenetic treeShrestha_etal_NexusTree.PlantBiology.txt ... |
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