Two factors have been suggested to play a role in determin ing the limit to inflorescence size within a species: energy limitation and diminishing pollination returns for larger inflorescence sizes. In an effort to assess the significance or pollination limitation we examined the effect or inflorescence size on pol1inator visitation patterns for 2 species, Aconitum columbianum and Delphinium nelsonii. These species are similar in their pollination biology, and both have a racemose inflorescence, but they differ markedly in inflorescence size (A. columbianum has from 1-26 open flowers while D. nelsonii has 1-6 open flowers). For each species the following parameters were examined as a function of inflorescence size: visits per inflorescence,...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
Plants may use different strategies to attract pollinators in long distance (e.g. floral display) an...
Delphinium nelsonii Greene is a spring-flowering perennial of the Rocky Mountains of North America. ...
© 2014 The Linnean Society of London. Flower size and number usually evolve under pollinator-mediate...
Pollinators greatly influence the fitness of most tropical plants, and how effective plants are at a...
Background: Intraspecific variations in floral traits of species over its geographic range can be as...
The rate of pollen exchange within and among flowers may depend on pollinator attraction traits such...
Plants that are pollinator limited may show important fitness relationships with factors influencing...
Using a patch of the inflorescences of Prunella vulgaris we observed visitation sequences of fourtee...
Twenty-five biotically pollinated plants of the Chaco Serrano Forest (Córdoba, Argentina) were studi...
General EcologyPollination is essential for the proliferation of plants that require biotic interact...
Most species of Neotropical Malpighiaceae are pollinated by oil-collecting bees of diverse sizes, bu...
Correlation among phenotypic traits may be explained by correlational selection, the simultaneous se...
Twenty-five biotically pollinated plants of the Chaco Serrano Forest (Córdoba, Argentina) were studi...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
Plants may use different strategies to attract pollinators in long distance (e.g. floral display) an...
Delphinium nelsonii Greene is a spring-flowering perennial of the Rocky Mountains of North America. ...
© 2014 The Linnean Society of London. Flower size and number usually evolve under pollinator-mediate...
Pollinators greatly influence the fitness of most tropical plants, and how effective plants are at a...
Background: Intraspecific variations in floral traits of species over its geographic range can be as...
The rate of pollen exchange within and among flowers may depend on pollinator attraction traits such...
Plants that are pollinator limited may show important fitness relationships with factors influencing...
Using a patch of the inflorescences of Prunella vulgaris we observed visitation sequences of fourtee...
Twenty-five biotically pollinated plants of the Chaco Serrano Forest (Córdoba, Argentina) were studi...
General EcologyPollination is essential for the proliferation of plants that require biotic interact...
Most species of Neotropical Malpighiaceae are pollinated by oil-collecting bees of diverse sizes, bu...
Correlation among phenotypic traits may be explained by correlational selection, the simultaneous se...
Twenty-five biotically pollinated plants of the Chaco Serrano Forest (Córdoba, Argentina) were studi...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
The size, form and color are signals used by flowers to attract their pollinators. Large and showy c...
Plants may use different strategies to attract pollinators in long distance (e.g. floral display) an...