Individual flowering phenology shapes plant-pollinator interactions across ecological scales affecting plant reproduction.

ABSTRACT: The balance of pollination competition and facilitation among co-flowering plants and abiotic resource availability can modify plant species and individual reproduction. Floral resource succession and spatial heterogeneity modulate plant-pollinator interactions across ecological scales (individual plant, local assemblage, and interaction network of agroecological infrastructure across the farm). Intraspecific variation in flowering phenology can modulate the precise level of spatio-temporal heterogeneity in floral resources, pollen donor density, and pollinator interactions that a plant individual is exposed to, thereby affecting reproduction. We tested how abiotic resources and multi-scale plant-pollinator interactions affected individual plant seed set modulated by intraspecific variatio

SUBMITTER: Labonte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9811238 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature