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Effects of floral neighborhood on seed set and degree of outbreeding in a high-alpine cushion plant.
Oecologia - 1 Oct 2011
Wirth Lea R, Waser Nickolas M, Graf René, Gugerli Felix, Landergott Urs, Erhardt Andreas, Linder Hans Peter, Holderegger Rolf
Abstract excerpt
Plants flowering together may influence each other's pollination and fecundity over a range of physical distances. Their effects on one another can be competitive, neutral, or facilitative. We manipulated the floral neighborhood of the high-alpine cushion plant Eritrichium nanum in the Swiss Alps and measured the effects of co-flowering neighbors on both the number of seeds produced and the degree of inbreeding...
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