A multi-year study of factors affecting fruit production in Aristolochia paucinervis (Aristolochiaceae)

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 599-606

  Berjano, Regina ^a   De Vega, Clara ^a   Arista, Montserrat ^a   Ortiz, Pedro L ^a   Talavera, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aristolochia paucinervis; Aristolochiaceae; Autonomous self pollination; Fruit set; Multi year study; Pollen limitation; Resource limitation; Spain

Indexed keywords

FRUIT PRODUCTION; FRUIT SET; POLLEN LIMITATION; POLLINATION;

ARISTOLOCHIA; ARISTOLOCHIA PAUCINERVIS; ARISTOLOCHIACEAE; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 33645537193     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: 00029122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.93.4.599     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. AIGNER, P. A. 2001. Optimality modeling and fitness trade-offs: when should plants become pollinator specialists? Oikos 95: 177-184.
2. ARISTA, M., P. L. ORTIZ, AND S. TALAVERA. 1999. Apical pattern of fruit production in the racemes of Ceratonia siliqua (Leguminosae: Caesalpinoideae): role of pollinators. American Journal of Botany 86: 1708-1716.
3. BARTAREAU, T. 1995. Pollination limitation, costs of capsule production and the capsule-to-flower ratio in Dendrobium monophyllum F. Muell. (Orchidaceae). Australian Journal of Ecology 20: 257-265.
4. BAWA, K. S., AND C. J. WEBB. 1984. Flower, fruit and seed abortion in tropical forest tree: implications for the evolution of paternal and maternal reproductive patterns. American Journal of Botany 71: 736-751.
5. BIERZYCHUDEK, P. 1981. Pollinator limitation of plant reproductive effort. American Naturalist 117: 838-840.
6. BOOKMAN, S. S. 1984. Evidence for selective fruit production in Asclepias. Evolution 38: 72-86.
7. BRANTJES, B. M. 1980. Flower morphology of Aristolochia species and the consequences for pollination. Acta Botanica Neerlandica 29: 212-213.
8. BURGESS, K. S., J. SINGFIELD, V. MELENDEZ, AND P. G. KEVAN. 2004. Pollination biology of Aristolochia grandiflora (Aristolochiaceae) in Veracruz, Mexico. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 91: 346-356.
9. CAMPBELL, D. R. 1985. Pollinator sharing and seed set of Stellaria pubera: competition for pollination. Ecology 66: 544-553.
10. CAMPBELL, D. R. 1987. Interpopulation variation in fruit production: the role of pollinator limitation in the Olympic mountains. American Journal of Botany 74: 269-273.
11. COWLING, R. M., P. W. RUNDEL, B. B. LAMONT, M. K. ARROYO, AND M. ARIANOUTSOU. 1996. Plant diversity in the Mediterranean-climate regions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 352-360.
12. CRUDEN, R. W. 1977. Pollen-ovule ratios: a conservative indicator of breeding systems in flowering plants. Evolution 31: 32-46.
13. DUDASH, M. R., AND C. B. FENSTER. 1997. Multiyear study of pollen limitation and cost of reproduction in the iteroparous Silene virginica. Ecology 78: 484-493.
14. EHRLÉN, J. 1991. Why do plants produce surplus flowers? A reserve-ovary model. American Naturalist 138: 918-933.
15. EHRLÉN, J. 1992. Proximate limits to seed production in a herbaceous perennial legume, Lathyrus vernus. Ecology 73: 1820-1831.
16. GUITIÁN, J., P. GUITIÁN, AND L. NAVARRO. 1996. Fruit set, fruit reduction and fruiting strategy in Cornus sanguinea (Cornaceae). American Journal of Botany 83: 744-748.
17. HALL, D. W., AND B. V. BROWN. 1993. Pollination of Aristolochia littoralis (Aristolochiales: Aristolochiaceae) by males of Megaselia spp. (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86: 609-613.
18. HIME, DA C., AND E. DE L. COSTA. 1985. Sobre Megaselia (M.) aristolochiea n. sp. (Diptera, Phoridea) cujas larvas se criam nas flores de Aristolochia labiata Willd. (Aristolochiaceae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 45: 621-625.
19. HERRERA, C. M. 1989. Pollinator abundance, morphology, and flower visitation rate: analysis of the "quantity" component in a plant-pollinator system. Oecologia 80: 241-248.
20. HERRERA, J. 1988. Reproducción sexual y multiplicación vegetativa en Arisarum simorrhinum Durieu (Araceae). Lagascalia 15: 25-41.
21. HOLLAND, J. N., J.L. BRONSTEIN, AND D. L. DEANGELIS. 2004. Testing hypotheses for excess flower production and low fruit-to-flower ratios in a pollinating seed-consuming mutualism. Oikos 105: 633-640.
22. HOLLANDER, M., AND D. A. WOLFE. 1999. Non-parametric statistical methods, 2nd ed. Wiley, New York, New York, USA.
23. HOWELL, D., AND B. ROTH. 1981. Sexual reproduction in agaves: the benefits of bats, the cost of semelparous advertising. Ecology 62: 1-7.
24. JOHNSTON, M. O. 1991. Pollen limitation of female reproduction in Lobelia cardinalis and L. siphilitica. Ecology 72: 1500-1503.
25. KNIGHT, T. M., J. A. STEETS, J. C. VAMOSI, S. J. MAZER, M. BURD, D. R. CAMPBELL, M. R. DUDASH, M. O. JOHNSTON, R. J. MITCHELL, AND T. L. ASHMAN. 2005. Pollen limitation of plant reproduction: pattern and process. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 36: 467-497.
26. LARSON, B. M. H., AND S. C. H. BARRETT. 1999. The ecology of pollen limitation in buzz-pollinated Rhexia virginica (Melastomataceae). Journal of Ecology 87: 371-381.
27. LEE, T. D., AND F. A. BAZZAZ. 1982. Regulation of fruit and seed production in an annual legume, Cassia fasciculata. Ecology 63: 1363-1373.
28. LLOYD, D. G. 1980. Sexual strategies in plants. I. An hypothesis of serial adjustment of maternal investment during one reproductive season. New Phytologist 86: 69-79.
29. MARTIN, F. N. 1959. Staining and observing pollen tubes in the style by means of fluorescence. Stain Technology 34: 125-128.
30. NEAL, P. R., A. DAFNI, AND M. GIURFA. 1998. Floral symmetry and its role in plant-pollinator systems: terminology, distribution, and hypotheses. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29: 345-373.
31. PODOLOSKY, R. D. 1992. Strange floral attractors: pollination attraction and the evolution of plant sexual systems. Science 258: 791-793.
32. RAMIREZ, N. 1993. Production and cost of fruits and seeds among life forms. Biotropica 25: 46-60.
33. RAZZAK, M. A., T. ALI, AND S. I. ALI. 1992. The pollination biology of Aristolochia bracteolata Lamk. (Aristolochiaceae). Pakistan Journal of Botany 24: 79-87.
34. RODÓ , X., AND F. COMÍN. 2001. Fluctuaciones del clima mediterráneo. Conexiones globales y consecuencias regionales. In R. Zamora and F. I. Pugnaire [eds.], Ecosistemas mediterráneos, análisis funcional, 1-35. CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
35. SAKAI, S. 2002. Aristolochia spp. (Aristolochiaceae) pollinated by flies breeding on decomposing flowers in Panama. American Journal of Botany 89: 527-534.
36. SCHEMSKE, D. W. 1980. Evolution of floral display in the orchid Brassavola nodosa. Evolution 34: 489-493.
37. SNOW, A. A. 1982. Pollination intensity and seed set in Passiflora vitifolia. Oecologia 55: 231-216.
38. SNOW, A. A. 1986. Pollination dynamics in Epilobium canum (Onagraceae): consequences for gametophytic selection. American Journal of Botany 73: 139-151.
39. STEBBINS, G. L. 1970. Adaptive radiation of reproductive characteristics in angiosperms. I. Pollination mechanisms. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1: 307-326
40. STEPHENSON, A. G. 1981. Flower and fruit abortion: proximate causes and ultimate functions. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 12: 253-279.
41. SUTHERLAND, S. 1986. Patterns of fruit set: what controls fruit-flower ratios in plants? Evolution 40: 177-128.
42. SUTHERLAND, S. 1987. Why hermaphroditic plants produce many more flowers than fruits: experimental test with Agave mckelveyana. Evolution 41: 750-759.
43. SUTHERLAND, S., AND L. F. DELPH. 1984. On the importance of male fitness in plants: patterns of fruit-set. Ecology 65: 1093-1104.
44. THOMSON, J. D. 2001. How do visitation patterns vary among pollinators in relation to floral display and floral design in a generalist pollination system. Oecologia 126: 386-394.
45. TORRES, C., M. C. EYNARD, M. A. AIZEN, AND L. GALETTO. 2002. Selective fruit maturation and seedling performance in Acacia caven (Fabaceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 809-813.
46. TORRES, C., AND L. GALETTO. 1999. Factors constraining fruit set in Mandevilla pentlandiana (Apocynaceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 29: 187-205.
47. VALLADARES, F., L. BALAGUER, E. MARTÍNEZ-FERRI, E. PÉREZ-CORONA, AND E. MANRIQUE. 2002. Plasticity, instability and canalization: is the phenotypic variation in seedlings of sclerophyll oaks consistent with the environmental unpredictability of Mediterranean ecosystems? New Phytologist 156: 457-467.
48. VAUGHTON, G. 1991. Variation between years in pollen and nutrient limitation of fruit-set in Banksia spinulosa. Journal of Ecology 79: 389-400.
49. VESPRINI, J. L., AND L. GALETTO. 2000. The reproductive biology of Jaborosa integrifolia (Solanaceae): why are its fruits so rare? Plant Systematics and Evolution 225: 15-28.
50. VOGEL, S. 1990. The role of scent glands in pollination. On the structure and function of osmophores. Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA.
51. WASER, N. M., L. CHITTKA, M. V. PRICE, N.M. WILLIAMS, AND J. OLLERTON. 1996. Generalization in pollination systems, and why it matters. Ecology 77: 1043-160.
52. WILLSON, M. F., AND B. J. RATHCKE. 1974. Adaptive design of the floral display in Asclepias syriaca L. American Midland Naturalist 92: 47-57.
53. WINSOR, J. A., S. PERETZ, AND A. G. STEPHENSON. 2000. Pollen competition in a natural population of Cucurbita foetidissima (Cucurbitaceae). American Journal of Botany 87: 527-532.
54. WOLDA, H., AND C. W. SABROSKY. 1986. Insect visitors to two forms of Aristolochia pilosa in Las Cumbres, Panama. Biotropica 18: 295-299.
55. ZHANG, L., S. C. H. BARRETT, J. GAO, J. CHEN, W.W. COLE, Y. LIU, Z. BAI, AND Q. LI. 2005. Predicting mating patterns from pollination syndromes: the case of "sapromyophily" in Tacca chantrieri (Taccaceae). American Journal of Botany 92: 517-524.
56. ZIMMERMAN, M., AND G. H. PYKE. 1998. Reproduction in Polemonium: assessing the factors limiting seed set. American Naturalist 131: 723-738.