Concepts

The ability of an organism to successfully transfer pollen between flowers for plant reproduction

Foraging behavior where floral visitors bypass the floral opening and access nectar by chewing holes in nectar spurs or using pre-existing holes

Natural selection on floral traits that occurs through differential pollinator visitation and resulting differences in reproductive success

The formation of new species involves divergence of phenotypes and development of reproductive isolation, where initial divergence results from divergent natural selection and reproductive isolation a...

Interbreeding between taxa that alters the pool of genetic variation available for population responses to changing environments

Reproduction in which pollen from a flower fertilizes ovules in the same flower or on the same plant