floralReward

[zedomel]

Field	Value
GUID
Rebipp Class	rebipp:PlantTrait
Label	floralReward
Definition	A list (concatenated and separated) of rewards offered by flowers to visiting animals in order to award their services.
Comments	Absence of reward applies when flowers are pollinated by deceit (no reward offered to visiting animals). Recommended best practice is to separate the values in a list with space vertical bar space ( | ) and use a controlled vocabulary of floral rewards.
Examples	nectar, pollen | nectar, absence of reward
Controlled vocabulary	nectar, pollen, oil, gum, resin, perfume, floral tissues, other, absence of reward
Darwin Core Class	Occurrence
Cardinality	One to one
Reference Protocol

[fonturbel]

Instead of "absence of reward" I suggest using just "absent".

[zedomel]

@fonturbel I agree.

I just have comment about the definition. The sentence rewards offered by flowers to visiting animals in order to award their services, makes explicit that the visiting animal is providing a service to the plant, but it can not be always the case (e.g. theft, robbing), and the reward is still there. The reward concept only makes sense when the visiting animal is a true pollinator. A different definition may be: any structure or secretion of the flower that can be gathered or consumed by pollinators.

Are there cases where services does not mean pollination?

Also maybe we should make distinct the floral rewards from the floral attractants (#42)

[pietrokiyoshi]

I would change to "no reward".
I can see you point @zedomel, and agree with your alternative: "any structure or secretion of the flower that can be gathered or consumed by pollinators"
A service for plants in this case would be pollination.

[joiceiamara]

I agree with @zedomel and @fonturbel

[carmensspires]

I agree with @zedomel and @fonturbel, but I suggest tochange "pollinators" for flower visitors", since not all flower visitors will be a true pollinator, but amost all flower visitor will collect some thing in the flower.

Any structure or secretion of the flower that can be gathered or consumed by flower visitors.

[pjbergamo]

I agree with @fonturbel @zedomel and @carmensspires. In most definitions, "flower visitors" will be preferable in comparison with "pollinators".

[cepnunes]

The use of the term Reward to designate the resources collected by floral visitors and pollinators is controverse, while the use of the more general term, Resource, is less controverse as it does not imply in assuming and intentionality to both plants and pollinators.

Thus, I agree that this term should be merged to the floralReward term, with a definition slightly different of both current definitions: "A list (concatenated and separated) of floral resources collected an animal visitor or pollinator from a flower during an Interaction."

Additionally, it is important to have in mind which term related to the Animal would differentiate it into pollinator or non-pollinating floral visitor.

[Mardiore]

In my opinion the definition is correct.

[paf1306]

I endorse @pjbergamo comment.

[zedomel]

New definition: Any structure or secretion of the flower that can be gathered or consumed by flower visitors
Controlled vocabulary: nectar, pollen, oil, gum, resin, perfume, floral tissues, other, absent