ReviewiScience2023
Honesty, reliability, and information content of floral signals.
Review in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Do Nectar Guides in Flowers of TwoPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Colour preference and foraging constancy in the Asian giant honeybee Apis dorsata.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
- Flower color variation in Digitalis purpurea: Pollination and soil influences across native and introduced populations.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Colors for Resources: Reward-Linked Visual Displays in Orchids.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Stacked scattering: The key to bright flowers lies in the mesophyll.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Domestication Reduces Floral Volatile Richness in Squash (Cucurbitaceae: Cucurbita) But Conserves Key Compounds Critical for Pollinator Attraction.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Bract size affects resource availability and fruit set in a hummingbird-pollinated plant with distyly polymorphism.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2025Article
- How to lose a whorl: the evolutionary and developmental biology of apetaly.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
- Tiny but significant: on the importance of thrips as pollinators.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- Floral scent changes in response to pollen removal are rare in buzz-pollinated Solanum.Planta · 2024Article
- Pollen nutrition structures bee and plant community interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Flower Size as an Honest Signal in Royal Irises (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Plants advertise their presence by displaying attractive flowers, which pollinators use to locate a floral reward. Understanding how floral traits scale with reward status lies at the heart of pollination biology, because it connects the different interests of plants and pollinators. Studies on plant phenotype-reward associations often use different terms and concepts, which limits developing a broader synthesis. Here, we present a framework with definitions of the key aspects of plant phenotype-reward associations and provide measures to quantify them across different species and studies. We first distinguish between cues and signals, which are often used interchangeably, but have different meanings and are subject to different selective pressures. We then define honesty, reliability, and information content of floral cues/signals and provide ways to quantify them. Finally, we discuss the ecological and evolutionary factors that determine flower phenotype-reward associations, how context-dependent and temporally variable they are, and highlight promising research directions.
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