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Size-dependent ESS sex allocation in wind-pollinated cosexual plants: fecundity vs. stature effects
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Graduate School of Life Science, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan. gyoko@mail.cc.tohoku-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
To theoretically investigate the single and compound effects of relative fecundity and relative stature of plants on size-dependent sex allocation (SDS) in wind-pollinated cosexual species, we developed a game model and analysed ESS sex allocation of large and small plants having totally or partially different reproductive resources and different pollen and seed dispersal areas in a population. We found that e.g. when both sized plants have large pollen dispersal areas relative to their seed dispersal areas, which plants are male-biased is largely determined by relative fecundity (t) and relative size of seed dispersal area (k) of the large plants to the small plants: If t >k, large plants tend to be more male-biased even if relative size of pollen dispersal area of large to small plants (l) is smaller than k. If t