Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "carnivorous plants"
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Construction Costs, Payback Times, and the Leaf Economics of Carnivorous Plants
(Botanical Society of America, 2009)Understanding how different and functional types "invest" carbon and nutrients is a major goal of plant ecologists. Two measures of such investments are "construction costs" (carbon needed to produce each gram of tissue) ... -
Energetics and the evolution of carnivorous plants - Darwin's "most wonderful plants in the world"
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Carnivory has evolved independently at least six times in five angiosperm orders. In spite of these independent origins, there is a remarkable morphological convergence of carnivorous plant traps and physiological convergence ... -
Nectar, Not Colour, May Lure Insects to Their Death
(Royal Publishing Society, 2009)We experimentally demonstrate in the field that prey of the carnivorous plant <i>Sarracenia purpurea</i> are attracted to sugar, not to color. Prey capture (either all taxa summed or individual common taxa considered ... -
Pollen Morphology and Its Relationship to the Taxonomy of the Genus Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae)
(New England Botanical Club, 2011)Despite nearly a century of research, the systematic relationships among North American pitcher plants in the genus Sarracenia (Sarraceniaceae) remain unresolved. In this study we analyzed pollen morphology of the 11 ...