It's not easy being blue: Are there olfactory and visual trade-offs in plant signalling?
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 6 | eng |
dc.bibliographicCitation.journalTitle | PLoS One | eng |
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 10 | |
dc.contributor.author | Valenta, Kim | |
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Kevin A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Melin, Amanda D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Monckton, Spencer K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Styler, Sarah A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jackson, Derek A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Chapman, Colin A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-01T06:45:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-26T17:21:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding the signals used by plants to attract seed disperses is a pervasive quest in evolutionary and sensory biology. Fruit size, colour, and odour variation have long been discussed in the controversial context of dispersal syndromes targeting olfactory-oriented versus visually-oriented foragers. Trade-offs in signal investment could impose important physiological constraints on plants, yet have been largely ignored. Here, we measure the reflectance and volatile organic compounds of a community of Malagasy plants and our results indicate that extant plant signals may represent a trade-off between olfactory and chromatic signals. Blue pigments are the most visually-effective – blue is a colour that is visually salient to all known seed dispersing animals within the study system. Additionally, plants with blue-reflecting fruits are less odiferous than plants that reflect primarily in other regions of the colour spectrum. | eng |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | eng |
dc.format | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.34657/1062 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/902 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science | eng |
dc.relation.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131725 | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY 4.0 Unported | eng |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | eng |
dc.subject.ddc | 550 | eng |
dc.subject.other | volatile organic compound | eng |
dc.subject.other | fragrance | eng |
dc.subject.other | pigment | eng |
dc.subject.other | volatile organic compound | eng |
dc.title | It's not easy being blue: Are there olfactory and visual trade-offs in plant signalling? | eng |
dc.type | Article | eng |
dc.type | Text | eng |
tib.accessRights | openAccess | eng |
wgl.contributor | TROPOS | eng |
wgl.subject | Geowissenschaften | eng |
wgl.type | Zeitschriftenartikel | eng |
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