Pollinator-mediated selfing erodes the flexibility of the best-of-both-worlds mating strategy in Bulbine vagans

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 374-382

  Vaughton, Glenda ^a   Ramsey, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delayed autonomous selfing; Facilitated selfing; Floral emasculation; Geitonogamy; Mixed mating; Pollen limitation; Reproductive assurance; Self pollination

Indexed keywords

AUTOGAMY; FLOWERING; GEITONOGAMY; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR;

ASPHODELACEAE; BULBINE;

EID: 77950255711     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01648.x     Document Type: Article

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