Predicting how pollinator behavior causes reproductive isolation.

ABSTRACT: Pollinator behavior is an important contributor to plants speciation, yet how variation in pollinator behavior causes variation in reproductive isolation (RI) is largely uncharacterized. Here I present a model that predicts how two aspects of pollinator behavior, constancy and preference, contribute to a barrier to reproduction in plants. This model is motivated by two observations: most co-occurring plants vary in frequency over space and time, and most plants have multiple pollinators that differ in behavior. Thus, my goal was to understand how relative frequencies of plants and pollinators in a community influence ethological RI between co-occurring plants. I find that RI for a focal plant generally increases with increasing relative plant frequency, but the shape of this relationship i

SUBMITTER: Hopkins R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9019001 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature