Pollination and floral ecology / Pat Willmer.
his beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share complex interactions with beetles, birds, bats, bees, and other creatures. The ecology of these interactions is covered in de...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2011], ©2011.
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| Physical Description: | x, 778 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Essentials of flower design and function
- Why pollination is interesting
- Floral design and function
- Pollination, mating, and reproduction in plants
- Evolution of flowers, pollination, and plant diversity
- Floral advertisements and floral rewards
- Advertisements 1: visual signals and floral color
- Advertisements 2: olfactory signals
- Rewards 1: the biology of pollen
- Rewards 2: the biology of nectar
- Other floral rewards
- Rewards and costs: the environmental economics of pollination
- Pollination syndromes?
- Types of flower visitors: syndromes, constancy, and effectiveness
- Generalist flowers and generalist visitors
- Pollination by flies
- Pollination by butterflies and moths
- Pollination by birds
- Pollination by bats
- Pollination by nonflying vertebrates and other oddities
- Pollination by bees
- Wind and water: abiotic pollination
- Syndromes and webs: specialists and generalists
- Floral ecology
- The timing and patterning of flowering
- Living with other flowers: competition and pollination ecology
- Cheating by flowers: cheating the visitors and cheating other flowers
- Flower visitors as cheats and the plants' responses
- The interactions of pollination and herbivory
- Pollination using florivores: from brood site mutualism to active pollination
- Pollination in different habitats
- The pollination of crops
- The global pollination crisis.