A functional view on pollinator-mediated floral evolution

Description

Plant-pollinator interactions and their consequences for floral evolution provide ideal systems for understanding (rapid) adaptation in the event of environmental change. First, the agents of selection driving adaptation (pollinators) and the
mechanisms linking phenotypes to fitness (pollination) are often known. Second, flowers are complex phenotypes which proper functioning (e.g. pollen transfer) depends on precise coordination of traits, allowing insights into multivariate
phenotypic evolution and constraint. I will present a functionally explicit fitnessfunction framework for studies of pollinator-mediated floral evolution and draw on insights from several study systems and meta-analyses to show how a functional
perspective can reveal surprising predictability of phenotypic evolution. I will focus on plant evolutionary responses to pollinator declines and changes in pollinator assemblage composition.

Period	2024 Mar 13
Event title	Nordic Oikos 2024: New perspectives in ecological and evolutionary research
Event type	Conference
Location	Lund, SwedenShow on map