Using the field pot-culture and sample-analysis method, 54 weed species belonging to 20 families and 31 weed species belonging to 17 families were systematically examined as to whether they can exclude the uptake of heavy metals. After a systematic identification, it was determined that Oenothera biennis and Commelina communis were Cd-excluders and Taraxacum mongolicum was a Zn-excluder. O. bie...

Genic heterozygosity and variation were studied in the permanent translocation heterozygotes Oenothera biennis I, Oe. biennis II, Oe. biennis III, Oe. strigosa, Oe. parviflora I, Oe. parviflora II, and in the related bivalent formers Oe. argillicola and Oe. hookeri. From variation at 20 enzyme loci, we find that translocation heterozygosity for the entire chromosome complex is accompanied by on...

INT~ODUCTION ................................................................... Hypothesis of heterogametism ..................................................... Equivalence, within strain C, of pollen of Oenothera pratincola f. typica and mut. latifolia. . The Fa and F, generations of the cross mut. formosa from strain E X mut. latifolia from strainc ............................................

Heritable variation in traits can have wide-ranging impacts on species interactions, but the effects that ongoing evolution has on the temporal ecological dynamics of communities are not well understood. Here, we identify three conditions that, if experimentally satisfied, support the hypothesis that evolution by natural selection can drive ecological changes in communities. These conditions ar...

This appendix provides additional methodological details not found in the text. The structure follows that of the “Methods” section (“Species and Sites,” “Plant Demography,” “Seed Demography,” “Population Models,” “Testing Predictions of Bet Hedging”), followed by two sections not identified separately in the text: “Generating Confidence Intervals for Growth Rates” and “Temporal Autocorrelation...

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