NDLI: Community-level flowering phenology and fruit set: Comparative study of 25 woody species in a secondary forest in Japan

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Author	Osada, riyuki Sugiura, Shinji Kawamura, Koji Cho, Michiko Takeda, Hiroshi
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	We investigated the flowering phenology, pollinator visitation, and fruit set of 25 animal-pollinated woody species in a warm temperate secondary forest in Japan. Various species flowered sequentially from February to October. The principal pollinators were bumblebees, honey-bees, flies and/or beetles and birds; bumblebees and flies/beetles pollinated most trees. The duration of flowering was shorter for species that bloomed in the middle of the season than it was for species that bloomed earlier or later in the season. The timing of flowering was more synchronous within species that had a shorter flowering duration; this was also detected when phylogenetically independent contrasts were calculated. This could be important for the effective pollination of species with a short flowering duration because such species bloom sequentially over a short period of less than 1 month around May. Fruit set was related not to pollinator type, sex expression, flowering sequence (in order of the date of peak flowering) or flowering duration, but to the relative abundance of the species in the forest. This correlation was detected for fly- and beetle-pollinated species but not for bumblebee-pollinated species. Thus, relatively rare plant species with opportunistic pollinators might experience limited fruit set because of insufficient pollinator services. Bagging experiments conducted on eight hermaphrodite species revealed that the fruit set of bagged flowers was nearly zero, lower than that of control flowers. These results indicate the importance of pollinators for successful reproduction and thus for the coexistence of plants in this secondary forest.
Starting Page	711
Ending Page	723
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09123814
Journal	Ecological Research
Volume Number	18
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	14401703
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Tokyo
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	flowering synchrony phylogenetically independent contrasts pollinator species species abundance warm temperate forest Behavioural Sciences Ecology Evolutionary Biology Forestry Plant Sciences Zoology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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