Pollination by Wind and Animals: Ecology of Geographic Patterns

Regal, Philip J.

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“…Wind has wellknown effects on pollination, dispersal, and disturbance (Regal 1982, Everham and Brokaw 1996, Gatehouse 1997 influence interactions between predators and their prey. Wind had no direct effect on aphid abundance, but negatively affected predator hunting performance (Fig.…”

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“…Much has been written on the effects of wind on dispersal, pollination, and environmental disturbance (reviewed in Regal 1982, Everham and Brokaw 1996, Gatehouse 1997), but little is known about how wind affects predator-prey interactions. Investigations into the effects of wind on predators have generally focused on prey detection by chemical olfactory cues (MacKenzie andLeggett 1991, Wyatt et al 1993) or flight costs to aerial predators (Verboom andSpoelstra 1999, Weimerskirch et al 2012 (Vogel 1994:50-80).…”

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Reduced wind strengthens top‐down control of an insect herbivore

Barton

2014

Ecology

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Abstract. Global wind speeds have decreased 5-15% over the last 30 years and are expected to continue decreasing in the future. However, little is known about how wind affects species and their interactions within communities. I experimentally tested the effects of wind on predator-prey interactions using soybean aphids and predatory multicolored Asian ladybeetles. First, I examined the direct effect of wind on aphids in a greenhouse without predators under three treatments: no wind, wind (oscillating fan), or simulated wind movement. Aphid abundances did not differ among treatments. Next, I conducted a field experiment in soybean plots assigned to either control or wind-block treatments. Predators were more abundant in wind-block treatments and reduced aphid abundance by 40% compared to control plots. To elucidate why wind indirectly increased aphid density in open plots, I conducted a feeding trial with ladybeetles foraging for aphids on plants that were assigned to either control or simulated wind movement treatments. Plant movement doubled the amount of time it took predators to begin consuming aphids and decreased predation rate by two-thirds. These experiments illustrate how wind can have indirect effects on prey by altering predator behavior and show the importance of this under-studied effect of global change.

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Reduced wind strengthens top‐down control of an insect herbivore

Barton

2014

Ecology

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“…Despite the fact that seed dispersion is not efficient in promoting long distance gene flow, pollen dispersion may be efficient enough to promote genetic exchange among close populations, as the studied ones. Animals that visit flowers searching for food usually remains in high resource patches, and therefore, promote pollen exchange mainly only between closer plants (Regal, 1982;Howe and Westley, 1997). However, an eventual pollinator that moves between patches is theoretically enough to promote gene flow between them (Howe and Westley, 1997).…”

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Genetic, morphological and spatial characterization of two populations of Mabea fistulifera Mart. (Euphorbiaceae), in different successional stages

Goulart

Ribeiro

Lovato

2005

Braz. arch. biol. technol.

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“…Wind pollination is uncommon in tropical moist forests (Bawa 1990). It is more common to find plants pollinated by wind in areas with lower plant diversity and more open vegetation, such as savannas, or with seasonal deciduousness (Regal 1982;Tetetla-Rangel et al 2013).…”

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Variation in plant-animal interactions along an elevational gradient of moist forest in a semiarid area of Brazil

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Pollination and dispersal are critical ecological processes that directly affect the reproductive success of plants and are important for understanding the structure of plant communities. We compiled data on pollination and dispersal syndromes of 406 plant species distributed among different elevations in Área de Proteção Ambiental da Serra de Baturité (APASB) in northeastern Brazil. We aim to determine how the dispersal and pollination of the flora in the mountainous rainforest of APASB are affected by climate, relief and growth form. We hypothesized that plant community is comprised of different ecological groups based on biotic and abiotic syndromes. Melittophily was the most common (57%) pollination syndrome followed by non-specialized and ornithophily (7%). We found that 64% of species exhibited zoochory, 19% exhibited anemochory and 17% exhibited autochory. Pollination syndromes differed significantly only between types of growth form. Dispersal syndromes differed between topology, growth form and elevation. Six ecological groups were formed based on the interaction between dispersal-pollination and growth form, with predominantly zoochory in woody and anemochory in non-woody plants. Water availability may be the principal factor responsible for variation among dispersal syndromes. The proportion of ruderal species in the non-woody component explains the differences in syndromes between growth forms.

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Pollination by Wind and Animals: Ecology of Geographic Patterns

Cited by 210 publications

References 91 publications

Reduced wind strengthens top‐down control of an insect herbivore

Reduced wind strengthens top‐down control of an insect herbivore

Genetic, morphological and spatial characterization of two populations of Mabea fistulifera Mart. (Euphorbiaceae), in different successional stages

Variation in plant-animal interactions along an elevational gradient of moist forest in a semiarid area of Brazil

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