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Increased Floral Rewards due to Local Adaptation Drives Plant Ecological Speciation via Learned Preferences of Pollinators.
The American naturalist - 1 Dec 2022
Takimoto Gaku, Kagawa Kotaro, Satow Takeaki, Sakamoto Takahiro
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AbstractIn animal-pollinated plants, the growth environment and pollination environment are two important agents of natural selection. However, their simultaneous effects on plant speciation remain underexplored. Here, we report a theoretical finding that if plants' local adaptation to the growth environment increases their floral rewards for pollinators, it can strongly facilitate ecological speciation in...
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