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Altitudinal differences in flower traits and reproductive allocation

Fabbro, Thomas ; Körner, Christian

In: Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants, 2004, vol. 99(1), p. 70

We tested whether alpine plants increase their effort to attract pollinators to compensate for assumed pollinator scarcity at high altitude. A three times larger fraction of the shoot was allocated to flowers in alpine plants (30 species, 2700m asl) compared to lowland plants (20 species, 600m asl), while leaf mass fraction did not differ between the altitudes. At high elevation, a three times...