Tolerance and resistance are two different plant defense strategies against herbivores.
Empirical evidence in natural populations reveals that individual plants allocate resources …

A major transition in flowering plants has been the evolution of separate sexes (dioecy) from
combined sexes (hermaphroditism). This transition is often, but not always, accompanied by …

One of the key challenges of both ecology and evolutionary biology is to understand the
mechanisms that maintain diversity. Negative frequency-dependent selection is a powerful …

Many flowering plants rely on pollinators, self-fertilization, or both for reproduction. We
model the consequences of these features for plant population dynamics and mating system …

Background and aims. Flowering phenology is described and the effect of flowering time on
pollination success is evaluated in the deceit-pollinated tropical orchid, Myrmecophila …

The evolution of secondary sexual floral traits may be driven by selection through male or
female reproductive success. Even so, the gender-biased function of a floral trait is often …

Premise Evolution of cross‐pollination efficiency depends on the genetic variation of flower
traits, the pollen vector, and flower trait matching between pollen donors and recipients. Trait …

Floral structure, including morphology, anatomy and histology, was comparatively studied in
representatives of all seven families of Cucurbitales as currently circumscribed by other …

Abstract Background and Aims Outcrossing animal-pollinated plants, particularly non-
rewarding species, often experience pollinator limitation to reproduction. Pollinator visitation …

Environmental management typically seeks to increase or maintain the population sizes of
desirable species and to decrease population sizes of undesirable pests, pathogens, or …