Pollination

Question 1

Guam common pollinators

Answer 1

butterflies

bees

ants

Question 2

What is pollination syndrome?

Answer 2

flowers having specific traits to attract a specific pollinator, and restricts other animals from pollinating them

Question 3

What are traits of pollination syndrome?

Answer 3

flower shape,
size,
colour,
odor,
reward type/ amount, nectar composition,
timing of flowers

Question 4

how is inbreeding prevented?

Answer 4

pollination

dioecious plants

temporal differences

heteromorphic flowers

self incompatibility

Question 5

How does pollination prevents inbreeding?

Answer 5

promoting movement of pollen to another flower instead of selfing

Question 6

What is temporal difference?

Answer 6

male and female flowers mature at different times

Question 7

What is heteromorphic flowers?

Answer 7

same species possessing two different types of flowers, and can only pollinate another type of flower

Question 8

Pollination syndrome for butterflies

Answer 8

bright red and purple color,
faint and fresh odor,
narrow tube with spur; wide landing pads

Question 9

pollination syndrome for beetles

Answer 9

white and green color,
none/ strongly fruity/ foul odor,
large, funnel-like, strong perch support

Question 10

How might aqautic plants be pollinated?

Answer 10

floating in the water allows exposure to insects to pollinate

produce lots of pollen that can float on water, and have large stigmas

Question 11

What is bee colony collapse?

Answer 11

when worker bees disappear in a colony and leaves behind the queen and immature bees.
Can be caused by poor nutrition, habitat loss, lack of genetic diversity, and pesticide exposure.

Question 12

Which came first, insects or flowers?

Answer 12

insects

Question 13

What are advantages and disadvantages of specialized plants for a certain pollinator?

Answer 13

1. if one pollinator becomes endangered/extinct, plant cannot be pollinated by another pollinator.
2. specialist reduces competition for flowers
   
   1. increases chance of pollinating of the same flower
   2. if flowers isn’t common, food source is scarce

Question 14

Ratio of specialist and generalist

Answer 14

there are more generalists, as it is more evolutionary advantageous to be a generalist for pollinators. However, since we are losing more plant diversity, more specialists may emerge.

Question 15

why is maintaining plant pollinator diversity important?

Answer 15

maintains diversity of plants. sustain angiosperms, which stabilizes both the ecosystem and the human economy (provides products that human use)

Question 16

How do you protect guam pollinator diversity?

Answer 16

find a method to control invasive species (control brown tree snake to support birds)