Fernanda Pérez

TL;DR: Results suggest that diversification of flower traits in Schizanthus has occurred in relation to pollinator shifts, and suggest that the moth syndrome evolved in the ancestor of three species that inhabit the Atacama Desert.

TL;DR: Evaluated diversity, floristic composition and relative abundance of vascular epiphytes and vines within a humid temperate forest in northern Chiloe Island, southern Chile, and tested whether species richness on tree hosts differs from that expected by chance.

TL;DR: This study provides the only instance where alternative hypotheses on alpine breeding systems have been tested with prior access to independently quantified community-level flower visitation rates, and suggests early acquisition of autogamy with present-day pollinator conditions being adequate to maintain low visitation rates at all elevations.

TL;DR: The results suggest that corolla integration inpollinator‐dependent species was shaped by pollinator‐mediated selection, and decoupling of nonfunctional traits in these species may result from a relaxation of correlational selection or from selection acting against a default covariation provided by genetic and developmental connections.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the pE-MAT relationship for modern floristic assemblages from southern South American forests, assessed its conformity to other models and test for the existence of historical constraints on pE and MAT models.