Plant-pollinator interactions in Hawaii: Pollination energetics of Metrosideros Collina (Myrtaceae)
- Author:
-
Carpenter, F. Lynn
- Title:
- Plant-pollinator interactions in Hawaii: Pollination energetics of Metrosideros Collina (Myrtaceae)
- Periodical:
- Ecology
- Year:
- 1976
- Volume:
- 57
- Pages:
- 1125-1144
- Subject:
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Metrosideros collina
Competition
Drepanidinae
Forests and forestry
Myrtaceae
Plants reproduction
Pollination
- Summary:
- One of the most abundant and widespread of the native forest trees on the island of Hawaii is the ohia, Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae). This tree grows from sea level to the 2600 meter elevation under several climatic regimes and colonizes new lava flow rapidly. It is also one of the most abundant trees in later stages of succession as it can grow to 40 meters tall on mature soils. Since this tree also plays an important role in the lives of much of the Hawaiian flora and fauna of the Hawaiian ecosystems, this tree was the subject of a two year study on plant-pollinator interactions and energetics. As a result, this study was done in an effort to determine the roles of insects and of some endemic Hawaiian birds in the pollination of the ohia tree, to test the theory that maximal outbreeding and seed set occur at intermediate levels of nectar availability, to understand the adaptive significance of profuse flowering in this species, and to determine the degree of specialization in the pollination ecology of this species.
- Label:
- Botany
- URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10125/34432
- Date:
- November 1976
- Collection:
- Periodicals