2) Inflorescence Production : 



A An inflorescence that produced no fruit 



P An inflorescence that was removed by predation 



F An inflorescence that produced at least one mature fruit 



3) Fecundity : 



Fecundity is the total number of mature fruit produced by a plant 



Plants that produced inflorescences were classified by using combinations of the classifiers 

 followed by numerics. For example, a mature plant with 2 aborted inflorescences, 1 predated 

 inflorescence, and 3 fruit-bearing inflorescences with 10 fruits would be recorded as A2-P1- 

 I3-F10. A complete record of all plants recorded during the study is given in Appendix A. 

 Transects were read between July 1 and July 7 in all six years. 



Over the course of the study I found that occasionally a plant would produce only a 

 small amount of ephemeral vegetation in one year. Thus, I would fail to detect this plant in 

 that year, but would detect it again in subsequent years. The presence of these plants can be 

 inferred by comparing transect maps from the full sequence of years. These plants are 

 assigned to a "very small" size class (ss) on those years when they were undetected in the 

 field. The presence of these plants cannot be inferred for either the first or final years of the 

 study. 



