How do you measure the effectiveness of a pollinator? One common method is to sit patiently by a flower and watch for visits. While this can tell you the quantity of visits, it doesn’t always tell you about the quality...
Tag - stigmatic pollen load
Fi Gennu
Conflicting selection on floral traits
Floral traits attracting pollinators may also attract seed predators; however, evidence for conflicting selection on such traits remains scarce. One could expect that such selection generated by pollinators and seed...
botanyone
Maintenance of self-incompatibility in peripheral populations of a circumboreal woodland subshrub
Compared with self-incompatible (SI) species, species that shift to self-compatibility (SC) are more likely to colonize a new habitat. Linnaea borealis, named after Carl Linnaeus and commonly known as twinflower, is an...
AoBPLANTS
Pollen receipt and quality in endemic-rich communities
The magnitude of pollen limitation is highly variable among habitats, species and differing plant communities. Alonso et al. analyse natural variability in pollen receipt and tube formation, and compare pollen quality...
