Plants exhibit complex mating patterns because of their immobility, hermaphroditism and reliance on vectors for pollen transfer. Research on plant mating attempts to determine who mates with whom in plant populations and how and why mating patterns become evolutionarily modified. Most theoretical models of mating-system evolution have focused on the fitness consequences of selling and outcrossi...

BACKGROUND Some of the most exciting advances in pollination biology have resulted from interdisciplinary research combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives. For example, these two approaches have been essential for understanding the functional ecology of floral traits, the dynamics of pollen transport, competition for pollinator services, and patterns of specialization and generalizat...

New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1999) 23(1): 61-67 ©New Zealand Ecological Society A. MITCHELL, K. HOGAN and H. CHAPMAN Ecology and Entomology Group. Soils, Plants and Ecological Sciences Division, Lincoln University, P.O. Box 84, Lincoln, New Zealand Landcare Research, P.O. Box 69, Lincoln, New Zealand Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Chri...

Department of Molecular Ecology (H.K., N.H., I.G., I.T.B.) and Department of Biosynthesis/Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (K.S.), Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena 07745, Germany; Department of Biochemistry and Department of Energy Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (J.R.); and Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama Unive...

11 Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-981 07 Abisko, Sweden 12 Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Department of Biodiversity and Natural Environment, 1070 Brussels, Belgium Corresponding author: Jonas J. Lembrechts, Centre of Excellence of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belg...

Kim A. Steige, Johan Reimegård, Daniel Koenig, Douglas G. Scofield, Tanja Slotte* Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockh...

State Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu 210095, China (B.Z., H.D.); Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 (B.Z., D.-L.Y., Z.S., J.H.); and National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Scie...

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Among herbivorous insects with a complete metamorphosis the larval and adult stages usually differ considerably in their nutritional requirements and food ecology. Often, feeding on plant structural tissue is restricted to the larval stage, whereas the adult stage feeds primarily or exclusively on plant-provided food supplements such as nectar and pollen. Research on herbivore nutritional ecolo...

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA L. H. Bailey Hortorium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Department of Biology, and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 17 32611, USA Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa St...