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Changes in floral nectar are unlikely adaptive responses to pollinator flight sound
Graham H Pyke1,2, Zong-Xin Ren1, Judith Trunschke1
1Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN-650201, Kunming, China.
Abstract:
Under noiseless experimental conditions, sugar concentration of secreted floral nectar may increase after flower exposure to nearby sounds of pollinator flight (Veits et al. 2019). However, we reject the argument that this represents adaptive plant behaviour, and consider that the appealing analogy between a flower and human ear is unjustified.
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