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Botany One blog article about our research

The Botany One website has a nice blog post about our recent paper in the Theoretical Ecology journal.

Our paper reports on experiments with an agent-based model of pollination dynamics. We investigate situations where a flowering plant species may actually gain an advantage when pollinators transport some of its pollen to a competing species. This allows the pollen producer to damage its competitor’s reproductive success even if the competitor has a refuge safe from direct invasion.

See the blog post here, and full details of our paper here.