CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

We recently published the ﬁrst systematic quantitative review of pollination syndromes to test the idea that the most effective pollinators of plants can be inferred from suites of ﬂoral traits (Rosas-Guerrero et al. 2014). Our results show that 1) convergent evolution of floral phenotypes is driven by adaptation to the most effective pollinator group; 2) the predictability of pollination syndromes is greater in pollinator-dependent species and in plants from tropical regions; and 3) many plant species also have secondary pollinators that often correspond to the ancestral pollinators documented in evolutionary studies.