Burkle Laura A, Runyon Justin B
Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717 USA.
Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 1648 S. 7th Avenue, Bozeman, Montana 59717 USA.
Appl Plant Sci. 2017 Jun 5;5(6). doi: 10.3732/apps.1600123. eCollection 2017 Jun.
As diverse environmental changes continue to influence the structure and function of plant-pollinator interactions across spatial and temporal scales, we will need to enlist numerous approaches to understand these changes. Quantitative examination of floral volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is one approach that is gaining popularity, and recent work suggests that floral VOCs hold substantial promise for better understanding and predicting the effects of environmental change on plant-pollinator interactions. Until recently, few ecologists were employing chemical approaches to investigate mechanisms by which components of environmental change may disrupt these essential mutualisms. In an attempt to make these approaches more accessible, we summarize the main field, laboratory, and statistical methods involved in capturing, quantifying, and analyzing floral VOCs in the context of changing environments. We also highlight some outstanding questions that we consider to be highly relevant to making progress in this field.
随着各种环境变化持续在时空尺度上影响植物-传粉者相互作用的结构和功能，我们将需要采用多种方法来理解这些变化。对花卉挥发性有机化合物（VOCs）进行定量检测是一种越来越受欢迎的方法，最近的研究表明，花卉VOCs在更好地理解和预测环境变化对植物-传粉者相互作用的影响方面具有巨大潜力。直到最近，很少有生态学家采用化学方法来研究环境变化的组成部分可能破坏这些重要共生关系的机制。为了使这些方法更易于使用，我们总结了在不断变化的环境中捕捉、量化和分析花卉VOCs所涉及的主要野外、实验室和统计方法。我们还强调了一些我们认为对该领域取得进展高度相关的突出问题。
