The majority of experiments in plant biology use plants grown in some kind of container or
pot. We conducted a meta-analysis on 65 studies that analysed the effect of pot size on …

Few studies have shown both reciprocal selection and reciprocal adaptations for a
coevolving system in the wild. The goal of our study was to determine whether the patterns …

The geographic mosaic theory of coevolution posits that the form of selection between
interacting species varies across a landscape with coevolution important and active in some …

Much of the variation in dispersal potential among seeds of different plant species has been
related to a putative trade‐off between dispersal potential and seed mass. Yet to date there …

To explain the general tendency of large mothers to produce large offspring, we developed
two models in which either the rate at which each single offspring extracts resources from …

The individual mean seed (caryopsis) mass of 34 natural populations of Leymus arenarius
widely distributed in Iceland and one each from Scotland and England showed a six-fold …

Individual plants provide a habitat patch for foragers where the sought‐after resources (eg
leaves, fruits and seeds) are clustered in locally dense aggregations. Characteristics of …

Substantial variation in seed mass within individual seed parents is at odds with predictions
of models for the evolution of optimum offspring size and with empirical observations of …

Allocation to reproduction is often examined at the whole plant level from an allometric
perspective; however, investment in reproduction is a hierarchical process which represents …

Abstract Background and Aims Using two parental clones of outcrossing Trifolium
ambiguum as a potential model system, we examined how during seed development the …