title: Flowering phenology: An example of relaxation of natural selection?
abstract: Flowering phenology has normally been viewed as fundamental to a plant species' reproductive ecology. Researchers in the field have emphasized the adaptive importance of flowering at a particular time relative to other individuals in the population, or other species in the community. An alternative view, however, is that flowering phenology is a trait that may not be under strong selection, and this may have allowed some variation to appear in populations by chance.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Polytechnic, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, UK 0X3 OBP.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ollerton
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lack