▪ Abstract Floral evolution has often been associated with differences in pollination
syndromes. Recently, this conceptual structure has been criticized on the grounds that …

Philip H. Crowley Center for Evolutionary Ecology, TH Morgan School of Biological
Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0225, and NERC Centre for …

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems
across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling …

Understanding how environmental factors drive plant community assembly remains a major
challenge in community ecology. The strength of different assembly processes along …

A new classification and conceptual framework for plant phenology are proposed to resolve
problems in describing tropical patterns. A long-term (12 yr) survey of flowering in 254 …

The study of phenological aspects of plants involves the observation, recording and
interpretation of the timing of their life history events. This review considers the phenology of …

Outcrossing in plants is influenced by the availability of pollinators and compatible mates,
both of which may be modified by the population and community context in which plant …

Summary 1 We sought evidence among the plant species of a New Zealand sand dune
community that limiting similarity controls the ability of species to coexist. Sampling was at …

Morphology and phenology influence plant–pollinator network structure, but whether they
generate more stable pairwise interactions with higher pollination success remains …

A wide range of terms such as' guild'and'functional type'have been used to describe
grou**s of species made on an ecological basis. However, such grou**s have been …