Potential role of lava lizards as pollinators across the Galápagos Islands

作     者：Sandra HERVÍAS-PAREJO Manuel NOGALES Beatriz GUZMÁN María del Mar TRIGO Jens MOLESEN Pablo VARGAS Ruben HELENO Anna TRAVESET 

作者机构：Global Change Research GroupMediterranean Institute for Advanced StudiesMallorcaBalearic IslandsSpain Island Ecology and Evolution Research GroupInstitute of Natural Products and AgrobiologyCanary IslandsSpain Royal Botanical Garden of MadridMadridSpain Department of Plant BiologyMálaga UniversityMálagaSpain Department of BioscienceAarhus Uni­versityAarhusDenmark Centre for Functional EcologyDepartment of Life SciencesUniversity of CoimbraCoimbraPor­tugal 

出 版 物：《Integrative Zoology》 (整合动物学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第15卷第2期

页      面：144-148页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 07[理学] 

基　　金：This study is framed within the projects CGL2013-44386-P and CGL2015-67865-P funded by the Minis­terio de Economía y Competitividad(Spain) the Charles Darwin Foundation,especially Diana Flores and Patricia Jaramillo and the Galápagos National Park,especially Galo Quezada and Carlos Vera(research per­mit numbers:PC-46-14,PC-20-15,PC-22-16),for of­fering us information and logistic support.JoséBen­edicto collaborated during lizard captures and Paula Castaño and the organization“Island Conservation”fa­cilitated access to the islets of Pinzón and Santiago 

主　　题：flower visitation Microlophus spp. mutualistic interactions pollination vertebrate radiation 

摘      要：Lizards have been reported as important pollinators on several oceanic *** we evaluate the potential role of Galápagos lava lizards(Microlophus spp.)as pollinators across their *** 3 years,we sam­pled pollen transport by 9 lava lizard species on the 10 islands where they are present,including 7 single-is­land ***,only 25 of 296 individuals sampled(8.4%)transported pollen of 10 plant species,the most common being Prosopis juliflora,Exodeconus miersii,Sesuvium *** Cordia *** least 8 of these plant species were native,and none were confirmed as introduced to the *** the low overall proportion of individuals carrying pollen,this was observed in 7 of the nine lizard species,and on 8 of the ten main islands(Española,Fernandina,Floreana,Isabela,Marchena,Pinta,Santa Cruz and Santiago),sug­gesting that this is a widespread *** results reported here support the potential role of lava lizards as pollinators across their radiation,although they may represent a relatively modest contribution when com­pared with birds and ***,we cannot discard that lizards may be ecologically significant for partic­ular plant species and ecosystems given the specific climatic condition and functional diversity of each island.