ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2013
A review of the energetics of pollination biology.
Review in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Ecological change may be a common initiator of evolutionary pollinator shifts.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Mountain colonization precedes shifts away from bee pollination in Melastomataceae.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- The Effects of Frost and Fire on the Traits, Resources, and Floral Visitors of a Cerrado Plant, and Their Impact on the Plant-Visitor Interaction Network and Fruit Formation.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Floral trait dissimilarity indirectly decreases heterospecific pollen transfer through pollinator sharing in a subalpine meadow.Oecologia · 2025Article
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- Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Intraspecific variation in pollination ecology due to altitudinal environmental heterogeneity.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Body-size-dependent effects of landscape-level resource energetics on pollinator abundance in woodland remnants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Land-use affects pollinator-specific resource availability and pollinator foraging behaviour.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Predation risk and floral rewards: How pollinators balance these conflicts and the consequences on plant fitness.Current research in insect science · 2024Review
- Opposing Patterns of Altitude-Driven Pollinator Turnover in the Tropical and Temperate Americas.The American naturalist · 2023Article
- Comparative Nectary Morphology across Cleomaceae (Brassicales).Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Flight-Fecundity Trade-offs: A Possible Mechanistic Link in Plant-Herbivore-Pollinator Systems.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Epidemiological and ecological consequences of virus manipulation of host and vector in plant virus transmission.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Restored and remnant Banksia woodlands elicit different foraging behavior in avian pollinators.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- An ecophysiologically informed model of seed dispersal by orangutans: linking animal movement with gut passage across time and space.Conservation physiology · 2018Article
- Landscape context alters cost of living in honeybee metabolism and feeding.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Seed production areas for the global restoration challenge.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
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Abstract
Pollination biology is often associated with mutualistic interactions between plants and their animal pollen vectors, with energy rewards as the foundation for co-evolution. Energy is supplied as food (often nectar from flowers) or as heat (in sun-tracking or thermogenic plants). The requirements of pollinators for these resources depend on many factors, including the costs of living, locomotion, thermoregulation and behaviour, all of which are influenced by body size. These requirements are modified by the availability of energy offered by plants and environmental conditions. Endothermic insects, birds and bats are very effective, because they move faster and are more independent of environmental temperatures, than are ectothermic insects, but they are energetically costly for the plant. The body size of endothermic pollinators appears to be influenced by opposing requirements of the animals and plants. Large body size is advantageous for endotherms to retain heat. However, plants select for small body size of endotherms, as energy costs of larger size are not matched by increases in flight speed. If high energy costs of endothermy cannot be met, birds and mammals employ daily torpor, and large insects reduce the frequency of facultative endothermy. Energy uptake can be limited by the time required to absorb the energy or eliminate the excess water that comes with it. It can also be influenced by variations in climate that determine temperature and flowering season.
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