Plants with larger and longer-lived flowers receive more pollinator visits and increase
reproductive success, though may also suffer more from antagonistic interactions with …

CONTEXT In agroecosystems, crop pests have long been controlled by the intensive use of
synthetic pesticides. To lower the dependency on pesticides, alternative crop protection …

Human activity often causes a decline in the local density of plant populations. Below some
critical lower density, populations may suffer a progressive decline in reproductive success …

The sum of fruit and seed predation by multiple species may strongly affect plant
reproduction and population dynamics. We evaluated the combined effects of ungulates …

Variation is the raw material for evolution. Differences among populations in the expression
of traits related to plant fitness may result from natural selection, phenotypic plasticity (in …

Plant recruitment in nature exhibits several distinctive patterns ranging from hump shaped to
monotonically decreasing with distance from the seed source. We investigate the role of …

Life history and spatio-temporal patterns of resource utilisation were characterised in four
Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) species, whose larvae compete as seed predators on …

The association between ontogenetic processes in plants and phytophagous insects is not
traditionally considered in studies of insect-plant interactions. Angiosperm seeds impose …

Insects feeding on plants may induce chemical and physical changes in the host plants.
Here, we present evidence of host plant modification following an insect attack that may be …

This research provides the first detailed assessment of Cistus ladanifer, a woody, perennial
shrub native to the Mediterranean, as an invasive species in South Africa. Three small …