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The Evolution of Flower Display and Reward

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Evolutionary Biology

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The evolution of the allocation of resources for display and reward in flowers is critically analyzed. We construct models which take into account the foraging behavior and preferences of pollinators and their effects on the pollination success of the plants. The resulting equilibrium ESS (evolutionary stable strategy) of the flowers—pollinators community is analyzed at both the short-term ecological level and the long-term coevolutionary level.

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  1. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, and The Center of Rationality, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

    Dan Cohen & Avi Shmida

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Cohen, D., Shmida, A. (1993). The Evolution of Flower Display and Reward. In: Hecht, M.K., MacIntyre, R.J., Clegg, M.T. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Evolutionary Biology, vol 27. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_6

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