Offspring for the next generation: Most are produced by small plants within herbaceous populations

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 737-751

  Chambers, Jesse ^a   Aarssen, Lonnie W ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competitive ability; Fecundity; Fitness; Plant size; Plasticity; Reproductive economy; Size fecundity relationships

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DRY MATTER; FECUNDITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 70350719993     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-008-9269-x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Aarssen LW (2008) Death without sex-the 'problem of the small' and selection for reproductive economy in flowering plants. Evol Ecol 22:279-298.
2. Aarssen LW, Clauss MJ (1992) Genotypic variation in fecundity allocation in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Ecol 80:109-114.
3. Aarssen LW, Jordan CY (2001) Between-species patterns of covariation in plant size, seed size and fecundity in monocarpic herbs. Ecoscience 8:471-477.
4. Aarssen LW, Keogh T (2002) Conundrums of competitive ability in plants: what to measure? Oikos 96:531-542.
5. Aarssen LW, Schamp BS (2002) Predicting distributions of species richness and species size in regional floras: applying the species pool hypothesis to the habitat templet model. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematic 5:3-12.
6. Aarssen LW, Taylor DR (1992) Fecundity allocation in herbaceous plants. Oikos 65:225-232.
7. Aarssen LW, Schamp BS, Pither J (2006) Why are there so many small plants? Implications for species coexistence. J Ecol 94:569-580.
8. Bashey F (2008) Competition as a selective mechanism for larger offspring size in guppies. Oikos 117:104-113.
9. Bernston GM, Weiner J (1991) Size structure of populations within populations: leaf number and size in crowded and uncrowded Impatiens pallida individuals. Oecologia 85:327-331.
10. Bonan GB (1988) The size structure of theoretical plant populations: spatial patterns and neighborhood effects. Ecology 69:1721-1730.
11. Clauss MJ, Aarssen LW (1994) Patterns of reproductive effort in Arabidopsis thaliana: confounding effects of size and developmental stage. Ecoscience 1:153-159.
12. Darwin C (1859) On the origin of species. Facsimile of the first edition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
13. Dolan RW (1984) The effect of seed size and maternal source on individual size in a population of Ludwigia leptocarpa (Onagraceae). Am J Bot 71:1302-1307.
14. Evenson WE (1983) Experimental studies of reproductive energy allocation in plants. In: Jones CE, Little RI (eds) Handbook of experimental pollination biology. Scientific and Academic Editions, New York, pp 249-274.
15. Ford ED (1975) Competition and stand structure in some even-aged plant monocultures. J Ecol 63:311-333.
16. Gadgil M, Solbrig OT (1972) The concept of r- and K-selection: evidence from wild flowers and some theoretical considerations. Am Nat 106:14-31.
17. Gleason HA, Cronquist A (1991) Manual of the vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. The New York Botanical Garden, New York.
18. Goldberg DE (1996) Competitive ability: definitions, contingency and correlated traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 351:1377-1385.
19. Gottlieb LD (1977) Genotypic similarity of large and small individuals in a natural population of the annual plant Stephanomeria Exiguq sp. Coronaria (Compositae). J Ecol 65:127-134.
20. Grace JB (1990) On the relationship between plant traits and competitive ability. In: Grace JB, Tilman D (eds) Perspectives on plant competition. Academic Press, London, pp 51-65.
21. Grime JP (1979) Plant strategies and vegetation processes. Wiley, New York.
22. Hancock JF, Pritts MP (1987) Does reproductive effort vary across different life forms and seral environments? A review of the literature. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 114:53-59.
23. Harper JL (1977) Population biology of plants. Academic Press, London.
24. Harper JL, White J (1974) The demography of plants. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 5:419-463.
25. Jurik TW (1991) Population distributions of plant size and light environment of giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida L.) at three densities. Oecologia 87:539-550.
26. Koyama H, Kira T (1956) Interspecific competition among higher plants. VIII. Frequency distributions of individual plant weight as affected by the interaction between plants. Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics Osaka City University, Series D 7:73-94.
27. Larcher W (2003) Physiological plant ecology, 3rd edn. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
28. Leverich WJ, Levin DA (1979) Age-specific survivorship and reproduction in Phlox drummondii. Am Nat 113:881-903.
29. Mithen R, Harper JL, Weiner J (1984) Growth and mortality of individual plants as a function of "available area". Oecologia 62:57-60.
30. Naylor REL (1976) Changes in the structure of plant populations. J Appl Ecol 13:513-521.
31. Niklas KJ, Midgley JJ, Rand RH (2003) Size dependent species richness: trends within plant communities and across latitude. Ecol Lett 6:631-636.
32. Obeid M, Machin D, Harper JL (1967) Influence of density on plant to plant variation in fiber flax, Linum usitatissimum. Crop Sci 7:471-473.
33. Ogden J (1970) Plant population structure and productivity. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society 17:1-9.
34. Schmitt J, Dudley SA, Pigliucci M (1999) Manipulative approaches to testing adaptive plasticity: phytochrome-mediated shade-avoidance responses in plants. Am Nat 154:S43-S54.
35. Silvertown J, Franco M, Perez-Ishiwara R (2001) Evolution of senescence in iteroparous perennial plants. Evol Ecol Res 3:393-412.
36. Solbrig OT (1981) Studies on the population biology of the genus Viola. 11. The effect of plant size on fitness in Viola sororia. Evolution 35:1080-1094.
37. Weiner J (1985) Size hierarchies in experimental populations of annual plants. Ecology 66:743-752.