ESITO 2025

Session

Pollination ecology

PE

21 Sept 2025, 15:45

Hotel Comoran (Villasimius, Italy)

86. How biotic and abiotic factors impact the evolution of plant-insect interactions

Florian P. Schiestl (University of Zürich)

21/09/2025, 15:45

Oral presentation

Both biotic (e.g. pollinators, herbivores) and abiotic ecological factors (e.g. soil, temperature) cause selection and thus impact adaptive evolution in plants. Nevertheless, we know little about the impact of individual factors and their interactions, as well as the speed of evolutionary adaptation, because of the paucity of controlled experimental studies addressing these questions in plants...

16. The role of floral scents composition in plant-pollinator interactions

Arthur de Fouchier (IEES-Paris, INRAE)

21/09/2025, 16:15

Oral presentation

Floral scents function as both long- and short-distance cues, conveying information about a plant’s presence, identity, and resource availability. The success of plant–pollinator interactions depends critically on pollinators’ responses to these volatile organic compounds (VOCs). A central feature of floral scent is its evolutionary lability: in this tight retroaction cycle, emission of and...