Island and mainland populations of plants often differ in their reproductive biology and
genetics. The differences become more pronounced the further islands are from mainland …

In investigations of the reproductive biology of New Zealand plants, breeding systems have
received much attention but there has been little work on pollination and still less on seed …

Research on flower biology began in New Zealand in the early 1870s under the influence of
Darwin's work on orchids, but from the turn of the century there was a decline in interest until …

Abstract Pollination in New Zealand, an isolated oceanic archipelago in the Southern
Hemisphere, has previously been characterised as having low rates of self‐incompatibility …

Population genetic studies of the evolution of breeding systems in flowering plants are
reviewed. The selective advantage of a gene's increasing the selfing rate is stressed. In the …

The hypothesis that, in the Arctic, genetic uniformity is a selective advantage (Mosquin,
1966) implies that the features of arctic plants which appear to promote variability are …

New data on floral conditions and pollination mechanisms in the Hawaiian angiosperm flora
are presented and analyzed statistically in order to suggest probable explanations for the …

This paper considers strategies for optimally deploying the parental investment that a plant
makes during one reproductive session. The subdivision of a plant's reproductive effort into …

The breeding systems of tree species of a tropical lowland wet forest were investigated as a
first step towards ascertaining the level of inbreeding. Approximately 65% of the species in …

Early botanists considered abiotic pollination to be primitive in angiosperms. But we now
deduce from studies of palaeoecology and of extant 'prim itive'angiosperms that animal …