1. what
was (were) the hypothesis of the experiment?

2. Did
the data support the hypothesis(-es)?  Why or why
not?

4. Why did the authors use various beet species for this
study?

5. How
do the authors define “reproductive effort”? Is this the best (or
only) way to do this?

6. For
any set of environmental conditions, how does reproductive effort
vary with reproductive strategy? (Figure
1)

7. What
does it mean to say that reproductive effort is “plastic”? Is this
true for both semelparous and iteroparous plants? Why should we see
these patterns? (figure
1)

8. Why
should the correlation between reproductive structures and survival
structures be negative in iteroparous plants but positive in
semelparous? Why wouldn’t it be negative in semelparous plants too?
(Figure
2 and Table
3)