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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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.112546 2023-05-15T13:40:12+02:00 Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island Shrestha, Mani Lunau, Klaus Dorin, Alan Schulze, Brian Bischoff, Mascha Burd, Martin Dyer, Adrian G. Australia and oceanic Islands 2016-04-01T16:49:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112546 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d/2 doi:10.1111/plb.12456 PMID:27016399 doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d Shrestha M, Lunau K, Dorin A, Schulze B, Bischoff M, Burd M, Dyer AG (2016) Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island. Plant Biology 18(5): 842–850. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112546 chromatic signal floral colour fly pollination sub-Antarctic island hoverfly (Eristalis) Article 2016 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d/2 https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.12456 2020-01-01T15:32:59Z 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 rare in continental floras. This is one of the strongest demonstrations that plant–pollinator interactions play an important role in plant community assembly. Future work exploring colour choices by dipteran flower visitors would be valuable. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Macquarie Island Southern Ocean Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) Antarctic Southern Ocean |
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chromatic signal floral colour fly pollination sub-Antarctic island hoverfly (Eristalis) Shrestha, Mani Lunau, Klaus Dorin, Alan Schulze, Brian Bischoff, Mascha Burd, Martin Dyer, Adrian G. Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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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 rare in continental floras. This is one of the strongest demonstrations that plant–pollinator interactions play an important role in plant community assembly. Future work exploring colour choices by dipteran flower visitors would be valuable. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Shrestha, Mani Lunau, Klaus Dorin, Alan Schulze, Brian Bischoff, Mascha Burd, Martin Dyer, Adrian G. |
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Shrestha, Mani Lunau, Klaus Dorin, Alan Schulze, Brian Bischoff, Mascha Burd, Martin Dyer, Adrian G. |
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Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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Data from: Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island |
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data from: floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of macquarie island |
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http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112546 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d |
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Antarc* Antarctic Macquarie Island Southern Ocean |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d/1 doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d/2 doi:10.1111/plb.12456 PMID:27016399 doi:10.5061/dryad.1k09d Shrestha M, Lunau K, Dorin A, Schulze B, Bischoff M, Burd M, Dyer AG (2016) Floral colours in a world without birds and bees: the plants of Macquarie Island. Plant Biology 18(5): 842–850. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.112546 |
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https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d/1 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1k09d/2 https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.12456 |
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