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Spatiotemporal variation in the role of floral traits in shaping tropical plant-pollinator interactions
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SYSNO ASEP 0552060 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Spatiotemporal variation in the role of floral traits in shaping tropical plant-pollinator interactions Author(s) Klomberg, Y. (CZ)
Tropek, Robert (BC-A) RID, ORCID
Mertens, J. E. J. (CZ)
Kobe, I. N. (CZ)
Hodeček, J. (CZ)
Fominka, N. T. (CM)
Souto-Vilarós, D. (CZ)
Janečková, P. (CZ)
Janeček, Š. (CZ)Number of authors 10 Source Title Ecology Letters - ISSN 1461-023X
Roč. 25, č. 4 (2022), s. 839-850Number of pages 12 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords afrotropics ; foraging behaviour ; Mount Cameroon National Park Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour OECD category Plant sciences, botany Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support BC-A - RVO:60077344 UT WOS 000740762400001 EID SCOPUS 85122738216 DOI 10.1111/ele.13958 Annotation The pollination syndrome hypothesis predicts that plants pollinated by the same pollinator group bear convergent combinations of specific floral functional traits. Nevertheless, some studies have shown that these combinations predict pollinators with relatively low accuracy. This discrepancy may be caused by changes in the importance of specific floral traits for different pollinator groups and under different environmental conditions. To explore this, we studied pollination systems and floral traits along an elevational gradient on Mount Cameroon during wet and dry seasons. Using Random Forest (Machine Learning) models, allowing the ranking of traits by their relative importance, we demonstrated that some floral traits are more important than others for pollinators. However, the distribution and importance of traits vary under different environmental conditions. Our results imply the need to improve our trait-based understanding of plant-pollinator interactions to better inform the debate surrounding the pollination syndrome hypothesis. Workplace Biology Centre (since 2006) Contact Dana Hypšová, eje@eje.cz, Tel.: 387 775 214 Year of Publishing 2023 Electronic address https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13958
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