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Article: Generalization in pollination system, and why it matters.
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- Ecology
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
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Relations between flowers and insect pollinators are archetypes of the results of coevolutionary interactions . . . Constant pollination might allow a maximum number of plant species . . . since . . . each plant species might have an efficient pollinator in spite of relatively high species density.
Crepet 1983:29-30
The flowers of each species are adapted in shape, structure, color, and odor to the particular pollinating agents on which they depend . . . Evolving together, the plants and their pollinators become more finely tuned to each other's peculiarities . . .
Keeton and Gould 1993:476
Collectors' notes are worthless as data of anthecology ...