Because most plants rely on animals for pollination, insights from animal sensory ecology
and behavior are essential for understanding the evolution of flowers. In this review, we …

Background Floral nectar is an important determinant of plant–pollinator interactions and an
integral component of pollination syndromes, suggesting it is under pollinator-mediated …

Pollinators visit flowers for rewards and should therefore have a preference for floral signals
that indicate reward status, so called 'honest signals'. We investigated honest signalling in …

Communication is an essential factor underpinning the interactions between species and
the structure of their communities. Plant-animal interactions are particularly diverse due to …

Flowers are complex structures, synchronously displaying both olfactory and visual
signals/cues in the context of a particular floral morphology, that also vary in resource …

Flowers are the complex and highly diverse reproductive structures of angiosperms.
Because of their role in sexual reproduction, the evolution of flowers is tightly linked to …

Existem visitantes florais que coletam recursos em flores sem realizar polinização, e
também há espécies de plantas que atraem polinizadores sem oferecer qualquer recurso. A …

Communication is a characteristic of life, but its reliability and basic definition are hotly
debated. Theory predicts that trade among mutualists requires high reliability. Here, we …

Morphospaces are mathematical representations used for studying the evolution of
morphological diversity and for the evaluation of evolved shapes among theoretically …

Floral odours play an important role in attracting insect pollinators. Because pollinators visit
flowers to obtain pollen and nectar rewards, they should prefer floral odour profiles …