Florivores are present in many pollination systems and can have direct and indirect effects
on both plants and pollinators. Although the impact of florivores are commonly examined in …

Obligate pollination mutualisms have been central to our understanding of the ecology and
evolution of mutualisms. Although usually viewed as pairwise interactions, obligate …

Multispecies interactions may have important consequences for the ecology and evolution of
mutualism by changing the cost‐to‐benefit ratio. Here I determine whether florivorous …

Mutualistic interactions contain an underlying evolutionary conflict, in that natural selection
favors individuals better at exploiting their mutualistic partner, thus potentially destabilizing …

Post-pollination selective flower abortion can provide plants with a mechanism to exact
some control over which fruits are matured. In Yucca filamentosa, seed quality and quantity …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 321–329 Abstract The evolutionary stability of mutualisms is
enhanced when partners possess mechanisms to prevent overexploitation by one another …

Premise of the Study Plants often interact simultaneously with multiple antagonists and
mutualists that can alter plant traits at the phenotypic or genetic level, subsequent plant …

The importance of herbivorous insects for plant demography and fitness is still controversial.
The fact that their effect has not be fully evaluated within the context of the complete plant life …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Specialized brood pollination systems involve both mutualism
and antagonism in the overall interaction and have led to diversification in both plants and …

Conflicts of interest are common to mutualisms, particularly those derived from exploitative
interactions. Conflicts of interest are particularly pronounced in pollination/seed predation …