期刊
NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY
卷 43, 期 1, 页码 1-59出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2005.9512943
关键词
autonomous selfing; blossom class; community analyses; functional pollinator group; breeding system; New Zealand; pollen limitation; pollination syndrome; pollinator dependence; pollinator; self-compatibility; sexual system
Pollination in New Zealand, an isolated oceanic archipelago in the Southern Hemisphere, has previously been characterised as having low rates of self-incompatibility and a lack of specialised pollination, as well as little pollinator dependence. These features have been interpreted as supportive of Baker's Rule, which suggests that long-distance colonisation selects for breeding systems that do not require biparental mating. However, we show that recent studies of the angiosperm flora reveal sexual systems (sexual dimorphism, self-incompatibility, monoecy, dichogamy, and herkogamy) that usually involve a dependence on pollen vectors. The level of self-incompatibility in the flora, though still poorly known, should be regarded as moderate rather than unusually low (about 36% of hermaphrodite populations tested are strongly or partially self-incompatible), though many more species remain to be tested. As found elsewhere, incompatibility is higher in the trees and shrubs (around 80%) compared with herbs (21%), Moreover, high rates of autonomous selfing have been demonstrated empirically in only 21% of the self-compatible species, demonstrating that they are not regular selfers. The pollinator dependence that these features impose makes much of the flora vulnerable to declines in pollinator service.
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