Keywords :
Flower-Visiting; Florivory; Pollination; Orthoptera
บทคัดย่อ :
Flower-visitation is a type of animal-plant interaction in which the animal benefits from visiting flowers-a nutrient-rich and conspicuous resource. This includes florivory (i.e., consumer-caused damage to flowers) and pollination (i.e., transfer of pollen to a stigma to allow for fertilisation). Interactions between plants and insects are complex and can be intriguing but there are still knowledge gaps, especially for systems in the tropics. In particular, florivory tends to receive less attention than pollination and herbivory. The orthopterans, comprising the grasshoppers, crickets and katydids, are among the most common terrestrial macro-invertebrates and were used as model organisms to examine these questions: (1) How can natural history of flower-visiting orthopterans improve the knowledge on pollination and florivory? This includes natural history observations in the field and laboratory experiments. (2) How can the behaviours of flower-visiting orthopterans help in understanding their ecological roles in the tropical Southeast Asia? I will test the neural constraint hypothesis and examine insect personality at the individual- and population-levels. (3) How do flower-visiting orthopterans (i) respond to and (ii) drive changes in floral traits?
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Tan, M.K., 2019. Flower-Visiting, Florivory and Pollination by Orthoptera in Southeast Asia (Doctoral dissertation, National University of Singapore (Singapore)).
