ArticleAnnals of botany2025
Evolutionary consequences of flowering-pollinator asynchrony: the case of a floral oil-producing plant and its oil-collecting bees.
Article in Annals of botany, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsSelective pressures, such as biotic interactions, can fluctuate over reproductive seasons, influencing trait-fitness relationships and, consequently, selection outcomes. Phenological asynchronies between plants and pollinators within a single flowering season exemplify how such interactions vary on short timescales, potentially affecting the fitness function of plant populations. However, the role of discontinuous temporal overlap between flowering and pollinator activity in driving the adaptive evolution of floral traits remains poorly understood.
methodsIn this study, we examined the variation of plant-pollinator temporal overlap within a population of the floral oil-producing Stigmaphyllon paralias (Malpighiaceae) to estimate trait-fitness (flower size-total fitness) relationships and the resulting selection pattern. We also assessed pollen limitation and pollinator-flower size association. KEY
resultsOur findings indicate that plant-pollinator asynchrony led to differential pollen limitation between peak- and late-flowering plants, contributing to correlational selection on flower size and flowering time. Peak-flowering individuals exhibited a positive flower size-fitness relationship under high pollen limitation, while this association was negative for late-flowering individuals under low pollen limitation, likely due to resource allocation effects. Despite these dynamics, overall selection was non-significant, although the probability of pollinator visitation increased with flower size.
conclusionsThese results underscore the potential for fluctuating pollinator selective pressures within a single reproductive season to influence floral adaptation. Specifically, they reveal strong differences in flowering-pollinator synchrony that drive selection outcomes, which may help stabilize genetic and phenotypic variation and potentially prevent rapid trait evolution.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.