Pollen limitation of plant reproduction: Ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences

By T. Ashman, T. Knight, J. Steets, P. Amarasekare, Martin Burd, D. Campbell, Michele R. Dudash, M. Johnston, S. Mazer, R. Mitchell and 2 more. 2004

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

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Experimental evidence for stronger cacao yield limitation by pollination than by plant resources (2010, background): “A review of pollen supplementation studies suggests pollen limitation is common in wild plants (Ashman et al., 2004), but little information is available for economically important crop species.”
Pollen Limitation of Plant Reproduction: Pattern and Process (2005, background): “In addition, even if pollen limitation does occur, this will not necessarily have large effects on the abundance and viability of plant populations (Ashman et al. 2004).”
Pollination efficiency and reproductive patterns in relation to local plant density, population size, and floral display in the rewarding Listera ovata (Orchidaceae) (2008, background): “Pollen quantity, for example, may be decreased as a result of fewer pollinator visits or less pollen deposited per visit, whereas pollen quality can be decreased if selfcompatible or incompatible pollen is delivered (for example, Ashman et al., 2004).”
Advances in flowering phenology across the Northern Hemisphere are explained by functional traits (2018, background): “, 2009) and very long-lived species are able to endure unfavourable environmental conditions (Ashman et al., 2004).”
Beyond biomass: measuring the effects of community‐level nitrogen enrichment on floral traits, pollinator visitation and plant reproduction (2010, background): “Although pollen limitation varies among years (reviewed in Ashman et al. 2004) and there can be both nutrient and pollen limitation of reproduction in other systems (Mattila & Kuitunen 2000; Asikainen & Mutikainen 2005), we found that, for 3 years, N limitation was more important for reproduction…”
Progress in understanding pollination systems in New Zealand (2005, background): “However, high PLI values may occur if resources are diverted towards hand-pollinated and outcrossed flowers which may act as a sink drawing resources away from other naturally pollinated flowers either in the current season or in future years (Janzen et al. 1980; Bawa & Webb 1984; Ashman et al. 2004”
Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time. (2011, neutral): “…most flowering plants, sufficient pollen availability through animal pollination is an essential process for the long-term persistence of populations because it affects seed production and genetic variability (Stanton et al. 1986, Larson and Barrett 2000, Ashman et al. 2004, Bjerknes et al. 2007).”
Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution (2012, background): “Bees provide key ecosystem services essential to maintaining wild plant diversity (Ashman et al. 2004; Aguilar et al. 2006; Potts et al. 2010) and agricul- tural productivity (Klein et al. 2007; Gallai et al. 2009; Lenda, Skórka & Moroń 2010).”
How to monitor ecological communities cost-efficiently: The example of plant–pollinator networks (2010, background): “First, the interactions among flowering plants and flower-visiting insects are of great ecological and conservation importance as they reciprocally depend on each other for reproduction and survival (Ashman et al., 2004; Forup et al., 2008; SteffanDewenter and Schiele, 2008).”
Larger patches of diverse floral resources increase insect pollinator density, diversity, and their pollination of native wildflowers (2014, background): “…depend on animals, ither vertebrates or arthropods (Buchmann & Nabhan 1996), or sufficient pollen dispersal as their main mode of reprouction (Ashman et al. 2004; Ollerton et al. 2011), and thus d Appl d r 2 ( e t t w g i c s h a n p h m p a e v w s a o w p a t v m c i & s t v i 2 n p fl v o…”
Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops (2007, background): “…Australia 5Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, 137 Mulford Hall no. 3114, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Electron 1098/rsp *Autho Received Accepted The extent of our reliance on animal pollination for world crop production for human food has not…”
Changes in pollinator fauna cause spatial variation in pollen limitation (2010, background): “The frequency and potential consequences of pollen limitation for plant populations and communities have been intensely explored during the last decades, both empirically (see reviews by Burd 1994; Larson & Barrett 2000; Ashman et al. 2004; Knight et al. 2005; Knight, Steet & Ashman 2006; Garcı́a-Ca”
Plant reproductive susceptibility to habitat fragmentation: review and synthesis through a meta-analysis. (2006, background): “Thus, decreases in abundance of the remaining generalist pollinators would therefore, potentially, have equal effects on the two groups of plants (Ashworth et al. 2004).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “Reports of pollen limitation underscore the importance of maintaining pollinator diversity (3, 78, 95, 144, 210), but I am unaware of any reports of widespread pollinator limitation from intact natural communities.”