Pollination failure in plants: why it happens and when it matters.

By C. Wilcock, Ruth Neiland. Trends in Plant Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Memmott
2. J. Ollerton
3. S. Potts
4. R. Bommarco
5. R. Isaacs
6. B. Blaauw
7. Richard J. Gill
8. R. Aguilar

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Memmott
2. R. Aguilar
3. S. Potts
4. T. Knight
5. R. Bommarco
6. Juli G. Pausas
7. F. Courchamp
8. L. Ashworth

In Plant Science

1. J. Memmott
2. R. Isaacs
3. B. Blaauw
4. J. Ollerton
5. S. Potts
6. J. Ghazoul
7. R. Aguilar
8. T. Knight

Citations in the corpus

• The effects of nutrient addition on floral characters and pollination in two subalpine plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Linum lewisii (2009, background): “The presence of conspecific pollen on stigmas indicated the potential for ovule fertilization (Engel and Irwin 2003), while heterospecific pollen represented the possibility of stigma clogging and reduced seed set (reviewed in Wilcock and Neiland 2002).”
• Isolation from forest reduces pollination, seed predation and insect scavenging in Swiss farmland (2009, background): “However, a number of generalist pollinator species have been reported to frequently use the floral resources even in intensively used matrix habitat (Wilcock and Neiland 2002; Westphal et al. 2003).”
• Gardens benefit bees and enhance pollination in intensively managed farmland (2011, background): “In fragmented landscapes, a main threat to wild plant reproduction is pollination failure, caused by lack either of mates or of pollinators (Wilcock and Neiland, 2002).”
• Organic farming in isolated landscapes does not benefit flower-visiting insects and pollination (2010, background): “Contra-specific pollen can have a negative effect on pollination either by chemical or physical inhibition (Wilcock and Neiland, 2002).”
• Disentangling the drivers of context‐dependent plant–animal interactions (2014, background): “However, the extent to which pollen limitation constrains plant fitness and potentially plant abundance is notoriously variable (Burd 1994; Wilcock & Neiland 2002; Knight et al. 2005).”
• High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation (2009, background): “For example, a large decline of insect-pollinated plants would reduce floral resource availability locally, potentially affecting pollinator assemblages and plant–pollinator interactions (Groom 1998; Wilcock and Neiland 2002; Knight 2003; Palmer et al. 2003; Ruhren and Handel 2003; Biesmeijer et al.”
• A global synthesis of fire effects on pollinators (2019, background): “…changes of fire regimes are likely to affect the pollina‐ tors and thus the pollination process (Dirzo et al., 2014; Potts et al., 2010), with ecological and economic consequences in both natural and agricultural systems (Dirzo et al., 2014; McKechnie & Sargent, 2013; Wilcock & Neiland, 2002).”
• Terrestrial orchid conservation in the age of extinction. (2009, background): “…pollinators, failure of removed pollen to reach a recipient, poor quality or insufficient pollen quantity and dispersion of heterospecific pollen (Wilcock and Neiland, 2002), whereas resource limitation may be a reflection of the fitness costs associated with sexual reproduction in the previous…”
• Effects of fragmentation on pollinator assemblage, pollen limitation and seed production of Mediterranean myrtle (Myrtus communis) (2009, background): “Pollination limitation may occur as a consequence of the disruption in the pollination environment (Wilcock and Neiland, 2002; Knight et al., 2005).”
• Dangerously few liaisons: a review of mate-finding Allee effects (2009, background): “It may be that the effectiveness of mate-finding (pheromone transmission) varies depending on the environment in a similar way to pollination with an animal vector (Wilcock and Neiland 2002), although Tcheslavskaia et al. (2002) speculate that predation may play an important role.”
• Reproductive Ecology of Flowering Plants: A Manual (2014, background): “Tropical rain forests are currently at the greatest risk from reproductive failure (Wilcock and Neiland 2002 ).”
• THE EFFECTS OF HERBIVORY AND POLLEN LIMITATION ON A DECLINING POPULATION OF TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM (2004, background): “While many studies have examined the effects of both herbivores (reviewed in Huntly 1991, Stowe et al. 2000) and pollinators (reviewed in Burd 1994, Wilcock and Neiland 2002) on aspects of plant fitness, few have linked these biotic interactions to plant population growth rates (but see…”
• Floral diversity and the facilitation of pollination (2006, background): “This pollinator service is a function of the number of visits per flower and the quality (i.e. compatibility) of the pollen transferred (Wilcock & Neiland 2002).”
• Pollinator webs, plant communities and the conservation of rare plants: arable weeds as a case study (2006, background): “Currently, 12·5% of the world’s vascular plant species are facing extinction ( Wilcock & Neiland 2002 ).”
• Do linear landscape elements in farmland act as biological corridors for pollen dispersal? (2010, background): “This is known as the ‘pollination crisis’, i.e. the decline in pollen delivery to plants, which represents an important ecosystem service (Kearns, Inouye & Waser 1998; Wilcock & Neiland 2002;Kells &Goulson 2003; Ghazoul 2005a).”