Journal
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 249-267Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-016-9870-3
Keywords
Animal-plant interactions; Communication; Coevolution; Foraging ecology; Mutualism; Sensory ecology
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Funding
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Minerva Fellowship
- German Science Foundation
- National Geographic Society
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Reproduction in many angiosperms depends on attracting animals that provide pollination and seed dispersal services. Flowers and fleshy fruits present various features that can attract animal mutualists through visual, olfactory, acoustic, and tactile cues and signals, and some of these traits may result from selection exerted by pollinators and seed dispersers. Plant attractants can provide information regarding the presence, location, and quality of the reward. However, because of the different functional outcomes of pollination and seed dispersal, pollination systems are thought to be more highly specialized than seed dispersal systems. Despite these interesting parallels and contrasts, theoretical and empirical insights in the sensory ecology of pollination and seed dispersal are rarely considered together. Here, we review extant theory and data of sensory attractants from both pollination and seed dispersal systems. We discuss theoretical and empirical similarities and differences between pollination and seed dispersal and offer suggestions for ways in which insights from each field may benefit the other in future.
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