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Temporal patterns of ovule allocation, fruit set, and seed predation inAnemonopsis macrophylla (Ranunculaceae)

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Ovule deployment patterns were studied inAnemonopsis macrophylla Sieb. & Zucc. to develop hypotheses about major selective forces underlying different temporal strategies. Carpel number per flower decreased significantly with relative flowering date. The trend was present at individual, population, and among-population, levels. Both ovule number per carpel and ripe seed weight decreased with later flowering date. Such temporal allocation patterns may be adaptive in late-flowering species with extended flowering patterns, because successively later flowers run a higher risk of lower resource availability and premature death due to deteriorating climatic conditions.

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  1. Olle Pellmyr

    Present address: Ecology and Evolution Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794, Stony Brook, NY, USA

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  1. Department of Zoology, Uppsala University, Box 561, S-751 22, Uppsala, Sweden

    Olle Pellmyr

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Pellmyr, O. Temporal patterns of ovule allocation, fruit set, and seed predation inAnemonopsis macrophylla (Ranunculaceae). Bot. Mag. Tokyo 100, 175–183 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488322

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