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| Title |
Flowers as Islands: Spatial Distribution of Nectar-Inhabiting Microfungi among Plants of Mimulus aurantiacus, a Hummingbird-Pollinated Shrub
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| Published in |
Microbial Ecology, November 2011
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00248-011-9975-8 |
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| Authors |
Melinda Belisle, Kabir G. Peay, Tadashi Fukami |
| Abstract |
Microfungi that inhabit floral nectar offer unique opportunities for the study of microbial distribution and the role that dispersal limitation may play in generating distribution patterns. Flowers are well-replicated habitat islands, among which the microbes disperse via pollinators. This metapopulation system allows for investigation of microbial distribution at multiple spatial scales. We examined the distribution of the yeast, Metschnikowia reukaufii, and other fungal species found in the floral nectar of the sticky monkey flower, Mimulus aurantiacus, a hummingbird-pollinated shrub, at a California site. We found that the frequency of nectar-inhabiting microfungi on a given host plant was not significantly correlated with light availability, nectar volume, or the percent cover of M. aurantiacus around the plant, but was significantly correlated with the location of the host plant and loosely correlated with the density of flowers on the plant. These results suggest that dispersal limitation caused by spatially nonrandom foraging by pollinators may be a primary factor driving the observed distribution pattern. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 4 | 57% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 4 | 57% |
| Members of the public | 3 | 43% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 210 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Serbia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 197 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 57 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 35 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 30 | 14% |
| Researcher | 26 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 7% |
| Other | 27 | 13% |
| Unknown | 20 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 131 | 62% |
| Environmental Science | 22 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 1% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 13 | 6% |
| Unknown | 23 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 October 2021.
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