Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 2. Which Traits Vary within Plants? Many different features vary across reiterated structures of the same plant. 9
6. Chapter 3. Continuous Within- Plant Variation of Reiterated Structures: The extent of subindividual variation in continuously varying leaf, flower, fruit, and seed traits is assessed. 36
7. Chapter 4. Distribution of Subindividual Variability in Time and Space: How are variants of reiterated structures organized along temporal, spatial, and architectural axes? 66
8. Chapter 5. Causes of Subindividual Variability: Mutations within individuals and organ- level responses to environmental cues are the main classes of remote causes of within- plant variability in reiterated structures. 98
9. Chapter 6. Organismal Mechanisms of Subindividual Variability: Ontogenetic contingency, the interplay between inherent architecture and environmental milieu, and developmental stochasticity are mechanisms responsible for within- plant variability of reiterated structures. 131
10. Chapter 7. Subindividual Variability as an Individual Property: The Haldane- Roy conjecture is verified and extended: individual plants have not only their characteristic means, but also their characteristic standard deviations and characteristic spatial patterns of within- plant variation. 186
11. Chapter 8. Consequences of Within- Plant Variation for Interacting Animals: Phytophagous animals’ discrimination among organs of the same plant can lead to the most profi table choice but has attendant costs that may infl uence their overall performance and promote among- plant selectivity. 211
12. Chapter 9. Fitness Consequences of Subindividual Variability in Organ Traits for Plants: Subindividual variation in the characteristics of reiterated organs may influence the fecundity or vegetative performance of plants, and through this mechanism, individual fitness differences may arise as a consequence of variation in the extent and organization of variability. 265
13. Chapter 10. Evolutionary Implications of Within- Plant Variability in Organ Traits: Subindividual multiplicity of organs can affect the evolutionary trajectory of organ traits by setting upper limits on responses to selection, opening the possibility of selection by animals on plant- level variability, and conditioning the size of realized phenotypic space at the individual and population levels. 311
14. Epilogue 339
15. Literature Cited 345
16. Index 423