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Effects of Florivory on the Pollination of Flowers: An Experimental Field Study with a Perennial Plant

Authors: Yuria J. Cardel; Suzanne Koptur;

Effects of Florivory on the Pollination of Flowers: An Experimental Field Study with a Perennial Plant

Abstract

Plants experience damage to both their vegetative and their reproductive parts. Loss of leaf area can affect subsequent photosynthesis and resources available for growth and reproduction; damage to flowers can result in loss of ovules and seeds by consumption, but herbivory may also disfigure flowers, interfering with their functions of attracting and rewarding pollinators. We examined natural populations of the butterfly pea, Centrosema virginianum, in pine rockland habitat in Everglades National Park (intact habitat) and a pine rockland fragment in suburban Miami‐Dade County to answer the following questions: (1) What is the breeding system of C. virginianum? (2) What are the pollinators of this species in southern Florida pine rocklands? And (3) how are flower herbivores affecting pollinator visitation and subsequent fruit set? Controlled hand‐pollination experiments revealed this species to be self‐compatible but requiring visitation/pollination for fruit set. Cross‐pollinated flowers and open‐pollina...

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