Most pollination biologists have used the collective pollinator visits to a plant as the measure
of its pollinator attraction. However, we know very little about how many returns by the same …

To explain the general tendency of large mothers to produce large offspring, we developed
two models in which either the rate at which each single offspring extracts resources from the …

• Background and Aims Plants need some kind of stored resources to resprout after shoot
destruction. The aim of this study was to determine the relative importance of carbohydrate and …

We analyzed the effects of temporal variation in floral display size (number of flowers open
at one time on a plant) on the rate of pollen removed and receipt of individual flowers for the …

Quercus seedlings have hypogeal cotyledons and tap roots, both of which act as storage
organs. The importance of the storage function in the two organs may change as the seedling …

To test the resource remobilization hypothesis, ie the hypothesis that some trees sprout from
root-collars or from the lower part of trunks using resources obtained from above-ground …

To examine the conditions selecting for induced defense, constitutive defense, and no-defense,
we developed a model of plant defense strategy against herbivory. In the model, a plant …

We examined the contribution of diurnal and nocturnal pollination to male and female
reproductive success in Lilium auratum. Plants were bagged for either 12 h during the day or at …

To examine the effects of vegetation cover on the resprouting abilities of Quercus crispula
seedlings, in each of three consecutive years, we artificially clipped seedlings growing in …

Understanding the fitness of plants with inflorescences requires examining variation in sex
allocation among flowers within inflorescences. We examined whether differences in the …