CHAPTER 24 Pitcher - plant communities as model systems for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolution

in ecology and evolution. In: Carnivorous Plants: Physiology, ecology, and evolution. Edited by Aaron M. Ellison and Lubomír Adamec: Oxford University Press (2018). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198779841.003.0024 et al. (1989) describes many of these species and their associations with S. purpurea; since 1989, over 200 papers have been published on S. purpurea or its inhabitants, including studies of interactions among different inquilines; local and biogeographic patterns in inquiline community structure; and studies of their genetic and evolutionary processes. The S. purpurea inquiline community has become a model experimental system for studying contemporary questions in ecology and evolution ( Srivastava et al. 2004). In this chapter, we review how studies of Sarracenia inquilines have answered fundamental questions in ecology and evolution. Much of the work focuses on Sarracenia purpurea, but where appropriate we will discuss studies using other Sarracenia species.