Sentence examples for the same pollinators from inspiring English sources

We investigated pollination in two plants that shared the same pollinators (bats and hummingbirds), overlapped in flowering and showed similarities in floral traits, favouring the mixture of pollen and the loss of plant genetic material.

Competition through interspecific pollen transfer can drive character displacement in plant species that coexist and share the same pollinators (Muchhala and Potts 2007).

These observations underscore the difficulty flowers with granular pollen have in achieving significant mechanical isolation by placing pollen in different locations on the same pollinators.

When plant species share a flowering period and have the same pollinators, loss of pollen, due to mixing with foreign pollen, is a common condition (Murcia and Feinsinger 1996; Muchhala and Jarrin-V 2002).

Furthermore, when sympatric Ophrys taxa share the same pollinator species, cross-pollination is usually prevented by the attachment of the pollen masses (i.e., the pollinaria) of the orchid on different body parts of the insect (e.g. on the head vs. the abdomen tip) during pseudocopulation [ 39, 40].

Thus, if pollinated by the same pollinator, an autonomous selfer would have a shorter tube length than a plant species reliant on pollinators for seed set or seed siring.

Usually, related hummingbird-pollinated species, such as Silene virginica, S. regia, and S. rotundifolia (Caryophyllaceae ), occur in different habitats but share the same pollinator (Archilochus colubris [ 63]).

Similarly, regional variation in the models that non-rewarding flowers mimic can generate disparity even though the same pollinator species is employed (Ellis and Anderson 2012).

Similarly, floral disparity in Stylidium (Stylidiaceae) and Burmeistera (Campanulaceae) seems to be associated with divergence in sites of pollen placement on the same pollinator taxa instead of using different pollinator species (Armbruster et al. 1994, 2004, 2009 a ; Muchhala and Potts 2007).

Although several of the taxa sharing the same pollinator type are closely related, similarities in trapping devices are unlikely to be a result of common ancestry alone, as our sample species belong to different clades of the genus and pollination syndromes in these clades have been shown to have evolved in convergence independently of the phylogenetic relationship (Linz et al., 2010).

In every case, the method is the same: the pollinator grabs the tube with its jaws and starts vibrating hundreds of times a second.