Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Abiotic and biotic components of the environment both limit plant reproduction, but how they interact with one another in combination is less understood. Understanding these interactions is especially relevant because abiotic and biotic environmental components respond differently to various drivers of global change. Here, we aim to understand whether the effects of pollination (biotic component) on plant reproduction depend on soil moisture (abiotic component), two factors known to affect plant reproduction and that are changing with global change.

Methods

We conducted pollen supplementation experiments for two plant species, Delphinium nuttallianum and Hydrophyllum fendleri, in subalpine meadows in the Western USA across 4 years that varied in soil mois

SUBMITTER: Rodelius IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11805941 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature