%0 Journal Article
%T Pollinators show flower colour preferences but flowers with similar colours do not attract similar pollinators
%A Javier Retana
%A Jordi Bosch
%A Jos¨¦ M. G¨®mez
%A Sara Revert¨¦
%J Archive of "Annals of Botany".
%D 2016
%R 10.1093/aob/mcw103
%X Background and aims Colour is one of the main floral traits used by pollinators to locate flowers. Although pollinators show innate colour preferences, the view that the colour of a flower may be considered an important predictor of its main pollinators is highly controversial because flower choice is highly context-dependent, and initial innate preferences may be overridden by subsequent associative learning. Our objective is to establish whether there is a relationship between flower colour and pollinator composition in natural communities
%K Colour preferences
%K floral colour
%K floral reflectance spectra
%K generalization
%K floral traits
%K phylogenetic signal
%K plant-pollinator interactions
%K pollinator assemblage
%K pollination syndromes
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4970366/