Journal
APIDOLOGIE
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-022-00945-2
Keywords
Antagonism; Legitimate vs; illegitimate visits; Mutualism; Plant-pollinator interactions; Pollinators
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [PIP 11220110100312]
- Universidad de Buenos Aires [UBACyT 20020130200203BA, 20020170200252BA]
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The study found that in plants of the Malpighiaceae family, the behavior of illegally collecting oil resources is as common as the legitimate collection behavior of bees, and this illegitimate collection is more common in lower latitude areas.
Plant-pollinator interactions are generally mutualistic, but if one of the partners can get rewards without providing any services in return, these interactions become antagonistic. In the oil flower syndrome, the highly specialized system suggests a high degree mutualism; however, there are reports of illegitimate oil-collecting bees in flowers of Malpighiaceae. We evaluated the legitimate and illegitimate visits to flowers in 15 species of this plant family along a latitudinal gradient in Argentina. Our results show that oil robbery in most of the Malpighiaceae analyzed species was as common as the legitimate collection of this resource by oil-collecting bees, and significant differences in the proportion of illegitimate visits along the latitudinal gradient, being the robbery more common to southern sites.
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