Associational effects of E. speciosus and E. elatior on their pollinators and seed predators.
Abstract
Studying the relationships between plants and insects is important in natural and agricultural communities. It has been shown that plant community composition has an effect on insect pollinators and herbivores. However, these relationships have only been researched independently and no study has comprehensively investigated the net effects of neighbors on pollinators and herbivores in the same system. In my study, I aimed to understand whether neighbor effects on pollinators differed from neighbor effects on herbivores. I worked with two species, Erigeron speciosus and Erigeron elatior, and arranged plots with varying relative abundances of the two plants. Throughout the flowering period, I recorded pollinator visits at each plot. I have collected the flower heads in order rear the seed predators and will have data to analyze in September. I will submit my final data and paper in late September or October 2014.
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