The effect of global warming on the Australian endemic orchid Cryptostylis leptochila and its pollinator.

ABSTRACT: Ecological stability together with the suitability of abiotic conditions are crucial for long-term survival of any organism and the maintenance of biodiversity and self-sustainable ecosystems relies on species interactions. By influencing resource availability plants affect the composition of plant communities and ultimately ecosystem functioning. Plant-animal interactions are very complex and include a variety of exploitative and mutualistic relationships. One of the most important mutualistic interactions is that between plants and their pollinators. Coevolution generates clustered links between plants and their pollen vectors, but the pollination and reproductive success of plants is reduced by increase in the specialization of plant-animal interactions. One of the most specialized type

SUBMITTER: Kolanowska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9886262 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature