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seed count and mass measurement

Subcategory: reproductive output
Standard reference: per Gezon et al. 2016
Papers: 28 | Mentions: 34

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Description

Comprehensive evaluation of seed production including total fruit counts, viable seed counts per fruit, individual seed mass measurements, and visual/physical viability assessment. Combines quantitative and qualitative metrics of reproductive success.

Typical Equipment

  • green mesh jewelry bags
  • precision balance
  • coin envelopes

Output Measurements

  • seed mass
  • total fruit count
  • viable seed count
  • seed viability

Papers Using This Protocol (28)

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Wind-driven seed dispersal differentially promotes seed trapping and retention across alpine plants

2026American Journal of Botanyusing
student_paper

Impacts of earlier snowmelt on fruiting phenology and seed success of Rocky Mountain wildflowers

2025using
student_paper

A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025using
student_paper

Does sodium in floral nectar enhance pollination & plant reproduction?

2025using
student_paper

The effects of drought on wildflower size and seed set

2025using
article

Does pollination interact with the abiotic environment to affect plant reproduction?

2025Annals of Botanyusing
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Differences in individual flowering time change pollen limitation and seed set in three montane wildflowers

2023American Journal of Botanyusing
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Community context mediates effects of pollinator loss on seed production

2023Ecosphereusing
student_paper

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021using
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Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & Evolutionusing
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Are Hylemya avoiding dusted <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> for good reason?

2018using
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Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of Ecologyusing
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Road Dust, <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i> Seed Count, and attack by <i>Hylemya</i> Flies—Are they Linked?

2016introducing
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Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2016using
student_paper

Fungal Phytopathogens Decrease Plant-Insect Interactions.

2015using
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Direct and indirect effects of frost on growth and plant-pollinator interactions in Delphinium nuttallianum.

2014using
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Effects of road proximity on pollinator visitation and reproductive success of Ipomopsis aggregate.

2014using
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Correlating road dust with reproduction of Ipomopsis aggregate.

2014using
student_paper

Consequences of Pollination Neighborhood Composition and Pollinator Communities

2014introducing
student_paper

The effects of road dust on pollination and reproduction of the native wildflower species, <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2013using
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How does altered phenology affect pollination and reproduction of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>?

2013using
student_paper

Color polymorphism in <i>Boechera stricta</i> due to phenotypic plasticity and reproductive advantage

2010using
student_paper

Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (<i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>)?

2009using
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Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008using
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Reproductive and physiological responses to simulated climate warming for four subalpine species

2007New Phytologistusing
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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of Botanyusing
student_paper

The effects of Castilleja miniata's parasitic relationship with Delphinium nuttallianum on pollinator visitation and pollination success

2005using
student_paper

The effect of hermaphrodite density and frequency at three spatial scales on the polen receipt and seed set of gynodioecious Geranium richardsonii (Geraniaceae)

2001using