Claim · model-written summary
Scrophularia californica showed significant pollen limitation in only 26.9% of patch/year combinations tested.
- Taxon
- Scrophularia californica
Scrophularia californicae0 - Outcome
- significant PLe1
- Value
- 26.9%e1
- Qualifier
- patch/year combinations testede1
Verbatim
e0“generalist plant Scrophularia californica”
e1“Scrophularia showed significant PL in only 26.9% of patch/year combinations tested”
Title
Diane M. Thomson Journal of Ecology 2018. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13055
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Association Visitation by the most abundant (Apis mellifera) and most effective (Vespula pensylvanica) pollinators strongly predicted pollen limitation and capsule weights.
- Observation Response curves of pollen limitation and capsule weight to visitation were both highly nonlinear.
- Association Pollen limitation saturated more than capsule weight with increased visitation.
- Intervention effect Simulated pollinator loss predicted substantially increased pollen limitation.
- Intervention effect Simulated pollinator loss predicted reduced capsule weights.
- Mechanism The predicted changes were mostly due to lower visit numbers rather than changes in visit quality.
- Observation Visitation rates of individual pollinators varied substantially and without correlation.
- Intervention effect Simulated pollinator loss increased the spatial and temporal skew in visitation.
- Intervention effect Simulated pollinator loss resulted in higher predicted coefficients of variation for pollen limitation and capsule weights.
- Mechanism The authors conclude that multiple pollinators can provide stabilizing benefits for plant reproduction.
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Apis mellifera
Vespula pensylvanica