Lemen Cliff
Field Museum of Natural History, 60605, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Oecologia. 1980 May;45(2):156-159. doi: 10.1007/BF00346454.
Amaranthus and several other wind-pollinated species of plants are used to test some of the theoretical models of relative reproductive effort towards the male and female sexes. Consistent with these models, in self-compatible, monoecious Amaranthus, Chenopodium, Digitaria, Setaria, and Lepidium, female effort represented over 90% of the total reproductive effort. Also consistent with predictions, Lolium, a self-incompatible wind-pollinated species, was found to have about equal male and female effort. A method is described here that should prove useful in quantifying male and female effort in both wind and insect-pollinated species of plants.
苋属植物和其他几种风媒传粉的植物物种被用于测试一些关于雄性和雌性相对繁殖投入的理论模型。与这些模型一致的是，在自交亲和、雌雄同株的苋属、藜属、马唐属、狗尾草属和独行菜属植物中，雌性投入占总繁殖投入的90%以上。同样与预测相符的是，黑麦草是一种自交不亲和的风媒传粉物种，其雄性和雌性投入大致相等。本文描述了一种方法，该方法在量化风媒传粉和虫媒传粉植物物种的雄性和雌性投入方面应会被证明是有用的。
