Floral visitation determined by phylogenetic distance in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.
Abstract
Pollinator’s attraction to various species of angiosperms is based upon various sensory outputs. These attractants could be floral/inflorescence size, color, scents or other various types of pollinator attractants. It can be inferred that plants species that are more closely related will have similar morphological traits and pollinator attractants due to the similar genes within them. This could mean that plant species that are closely related could attract the same pollinators to themselves, and thus allow us to predict floral visitation based upon phylogenetic relationships. Using phylogenetic relationships to predict floral visitation has been found to be a useful tool in the past few years that this study was done, and a positive relationship was found between floral visitation and the distance (in millions of years) to its nearest neighbor along with a small correlation between a species and the mean distance (in millions of years) between it and all of its neighbors. But, this year these relationships were found to be stronger and opposite of what was seen in previous years.
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