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Is increased male flower production a strategy for avoidance of predispersal seed predation in andromonoecious plants?
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| Title: | Is increased male flower production a strategy for avoidance of predispersal seed predation in andromonoecious plants? |
| Authors: | Kudo, Gaku Browse this author →KAKEN DB | | Shibata, Akari Browse this author |
| Keywords: | alpine plants | | andromonoecy | | floral gender | | phenology | | pollen donor | | seed predator | | sex allocation |
| Issue Date: | May-2021 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| Journal Title: | Ecology and evolution |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 10 |
| Start Page: | 5646 |
| End Page: | 5656 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1002/ece3.7468 |
| Abstract: | Floral gender in angiosperms often varies within and among populations. We conducted a field survey to test how predispersal seed predation affects sex allocation in an andromonoecious alpine herb Peucedanum multivittatum. We compared plant size, male and perfect flower production, fruit set, and seed predation rate over three years among nine populations inhabiting diverse snowmelt conditions in alpine meadows. Flowering period of individual populations varied from mid-July to late August reflecting the snowmelt time. Although perfect flower and fruit productions increased with plant size, size dependency of male flower production was less clear. The number of male flowers was larger in the early-flowering populations, while the number of perfect flowers increased in the late-flowering populations. Thus, male-biased sex allocation was common in the early-flowering populations. Fruit-set rates varied among populations and between years, irrespective of flowering period. Fruit-set success of individual plants increased with perfect flower number, but independent of male flower number. Seed predation by lepidopteran larvae was intense in the early-flowering populations, whereas predation damage was absent in the late-flowering populations, reflecting the extent of phenological matching between flowering time of host plants and oviposition period of predator moths. Seed predation rate was independent of male and perfect flower numbers of individual plants. Thus, seed predation is a stochastic event in each population. There was a clear correlation between the proportion of male flowers and the intensity of seed predation among populations. These results suggest that male-biased sex allocation could be a strategy to reduce seed predation damage but maintain the effort as a pollen donor under intensive seed predation. |
| Rights: | Is increased male flower production a strategy for avoidance of predispersal seed predation in andromonoecious plants? Gaku Kudo, Akari Shibata. Ecology and Evolution, 11(10). Copyright (c) 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. | | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/81933 |
| Appears in Collections: | 環境科学院・地球環境科学研究院 (Graduate School of Environmental Science / Faculty of Environmental Earth Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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