Cognitive ecology of pollinators and the main determinants of foraging plasticity

• 来源期刊: 动物学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 421-424
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz036

摘要

Introduction The long-lasting coevolution between flowering plants and associate pollinators has made both partners intimately connected and reciprocally dependent on one another (Chittka and Thomson 2001;Harder and Barrett 2006;Waser and Ollerton 2006).The interaction between plants and pollinators rests mostly on a mutualistic exchange:plants invest in the production of nectar and pollen to reward pollinators who,in turn,sustain plant reproduction by vectoring their pollen to conspecific flowers (Harder and Barrett 2006;Waser and Ollerton 2006).