Spatio-temporal variations in the flower-color spectra according to the pollinators' visual systems

• Grant number: 15/10754-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2016
• Effective date (End): June 29, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Ecology
• Principal Investigator: Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato
• Grantee: Maria Gabriela Gutierrez de Camargo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 18/21646-0 - Ecological relationships in time and space: flower signal standardization in congeneric species, BE.EP.PD 17/01663-4 - Analysis of flowers colors in a rupestrian grassland community according to pollinators' visual system, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Flower color is a major trait for communication between plants and their pollinators. The diversity of flower color may be the result of the selective pressure exerted by pollinators, which feature a wide range of visual systems, differing in the way they perceive and select colors. However, color diversity varies in space and time, affecting resource distribution to floral visitors and influencing visual communication between plants and pollinators. This variation is directly related to species composition and vegetation structure, being a determinant factor in naturally heterogeneous environments, as the rocky grasslands. This vegetation is composed by a mosaic of vegetation characteristic of mountain regions, with high species diversity and endemism, providing a natural environment unique to investigate flower color diversity and its importance to the species spatio-temporal connection in the landscape. In this project, we intend to evaluate flower color of species present in the vegetation mosaic of the "Cadeia do Espinhaço" rocky grasslands (Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brazil), according to pollinators' visual systems, aiming to answer: (i) which is the color pattern of those vegetation types and whether there are spatio-temporal differences in color diversity according to the type of vegetation and the altitudinal gradient; (ii) whether the combination of visual (related to colors) and non-visual traits for attraction are related to the pollination vectors and whether those traits are phylogenetically related; and (iii) which are the possible environmental filters of those floral traits in a spatial and temporal and phylogenetic context. We expect to find influence of plant species diversity and composition, environment and pollinators systems in the spatio-temporal pattern of flower color diversity across vegetation types and the altitudinal gradient of the studied rocky grasslands

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

NARBONA, EDUARDO; ARISTA, MONTSERRAT; WHITTALL, JUSTEN B.; CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ; SHRESTHA, MANI. Editorial: The Role of Flower Color in Angiosperm Evolution. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, v. 12, p. 7-pg., 2021-09-17. (15/10754-8)

VAN MELIS, JULIANO; GUTIERREZ CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; CARVALHO, PAULA GUIMARAES; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA; GROMBONE-GUARATINI, MARIA TEREZA. Contrasting edge effect on lianas and trees in a cerrado savanna remnant. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY, v. 46, n. 2, NOV 2020. (10/01762-3, 15/10754-8)

LOIOLA, PRISCILLA P. P.; MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA CERDEIRA; CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ; KAMIMURA, VITOR A. A.; MATTOS, JACQUELINE S. S.; STREHER, ANNIA SUSIN; LE STRADIC, SOIZIG. Shared-role of vegetation types, elevation and soil affecting plant diversity in an old-tropical mountain hotspot. JOURNAL OF MOUNTAIN SCIENCE, v. 20, n. 7, p. 12-pg., 2023-07-01. (13/50155-0, 09/54208-6, 15/10754-8, 21/10639-5, 10/51307-0, 19/09248-1)

STAGGEMEIER, VANESSA GRAZIELE; GUTIERREZ CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; FELIZOLA DINIZ-FILHO, JOSE ALEXANDRE; FRECKLETON, ROBERT; JARDIM, LUCAS; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA. The circular nature of recurrent life cycle events: a test comparing tropical and temperate phenology. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, SEP 2019. (14/13899-4, 15/10754-8, 16/02312-8, 13/50155-0, 18/14118-7)

GUTIERREZ DE CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; DE CARVALHO, GUSTAVO HENRIQUE; ALBERTON, BRUNA DE COSTA; REYS, PAULA; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA. Leafing patterns and leaf exchange strategies of a cerrado woody community. Biotropica, v. 50, n. 3, p. 442-454, MAY 2018. (16/01413-5, 10/51307-0, 15/14292-9, 15/10754-8, 14/00215-0, 13/50155-0, 10/52113-5, 09/54208-6, 10/01762-3)

RENAN BORGIANI; MARIA TEREZA GROMBONE-GUARATINI; BETÂNIA DA CUNHA VARGAS; AMANDA EBURNEO MARTINS; MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ CAMARGO; LEONOR PATRÍCIA CERDEIRA MORELLATO. Composição florística, modos de polinização e dispersão de sementes de uma área de cerrado relevante para conservação. Biota Neotropica, v. 22, n. 2, 2022-09-16. (09/54208-6, 13/50155-0, 15/10754-8, 17/15152-1, 10/51307-0)

DE MATTOS, JACQUELINE SALVI; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA; GUTIERREZ CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; BATALHA, MARCO ANTONIO. Plant phylogenetic diversity of tropical mountaintop rocky grasslands: local and regional constraints. PLANT ECOLOGY, v. 220, n. 12, p. 1119-1129, DEC 2019. (13/50155-0, 09/54208-6, 18/21646-0, 15/10754-8)

DYER, ADRIAN G.; JENTSCH, ANKE; BURD, MARTIN; GARCIA, JAIR E.; GIEJSZTOWT, JUSTYNA; CAMARGO, MARIA G. G.; TJORVE, EVEN; TJORVE, KATHLEEN M. C.; WHITE, PETER; SHRESTHA, MANI. Fragmentary Blue: Resolving the Rarity Paradox in Flower Colors. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, v. 11, JAN 15 2021. (15/10754-8)

MONTEIRO, BEATRIZ LOPES; GUTIERREZ CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; LOIOLA, PRISCILLA DE PAULA; CARSTENSEN, DANIEL WISBECH; GUSTAFSSON, SIMONE; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA. Pollination in the campo rupestre: a test of hypothesis for an ancient tropical mountain vegetation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 133, n. 2, p. 512-530, JUN 2021. (10/51307-0, 15/10754-8, 18/21646-0, 13/50155-0, 09/54208-6)

STAGGEMEIER, VANESSA GRAZIELE; GUTIERREZ CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; FELIZOLA DINIZ-FILHO, JOSE ALEXANDRE; FRECKLETON, ROBERT; JARDIM, LUCAS; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA. The circular nature of recurrent life cycle events: a test comparing tropical and temperate phenology. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, v. 108, n. 2, p. 393-404, MAR 2020. (16/02312-8, 14/13899-4, 15/10754-8, 18/14118-7, 13/50155-0)

MARTINS, AMANDA EBURNEO; CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA GUTIERREZ; MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA CERDEIRA. Flowering Phenology and the Influence of Seasonality in Flower Conspicuousness for Bees. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, v. 11, FEB 16 2021. (10/51307-0, 15/10754-8, 17/15152-1, 18/11985-1, 09/54208-6)

GUTIERREZ DE CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA; LUNAU, KLAUS; BATALHA, MARCO ANTONIO; BRINGS, SEBASTIAN; GARCIA DE BRITO, VINICIUS LOURENCO; CERDEIRA MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA. How flower colour signals allure bees and hummingbirds: a community-level test of the bee avoidance hypothesis. NEW PHYTOLOGIST, v. 222, n. 2, p. 1112-1122, APR 2019. (10/51307-0, 17/01663-4, 15/10754-8, 13/50155-0, 09/54208-6)

MARTINS, AMANDA E.; ARISTA, MONTSERRAT; MORELLATO, LEONOR PATRICIA CERDEIRA; CAMARGO, MARIA GABRIELA G.. Color signals of bee-pollinated flowers: the significance of natural leaf background. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, v. 108, n. 5, p. 788-797, MAY 2021. (18/11985-1, 17/15152-1, 15/10754-8, 09/54208-6, 10/51307-0, 18/21646-0)