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The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution.
An introduction to pollination ecology in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Collingwood :
CSIRO Publishing,
2021.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Williams, Geoff. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests |h [electronic resource] : |b Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution. |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Collingwood : |b CSIRO Publishing, |c 2021. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (289 p.) | ||
| 500 | |a Description based upon print version of record. | ||
| 520 | |a An introduction to pollination ecology in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Categorising rainforest plants -- The dawning of vascular plants, and those that are dead -- Living vascular plants -- Pollination of cycads and the dichotomy of contention -- Heat production and odour emission in cycads -- Australian conifers and their problem of pollination -- Pollen feeders of Araucariaceae -- 2 Rise of the angiosperms, and archaic vascular plants in Australia's rainforests -- Archaic Australian rainforest angiosperms -- Development of the ancestral angiosperm flower -- Chemical warfare and the evolution of flowers -- 3 Being a flower -- Influence of flower colour, fragrance and structure -- Ultraviolet light and perception of flower colours -- Floral rewards and the composition of nectar -- Heat production in angiosperms -- Flowering plants as breeding sites for pollinators -- Attraction of the comely shape: orchid flowers and barren illusion -- Flowering plants that mimic death -- Deciduousness and its benefits to pollination -- 4 Introduction to breeding systems -- Influence of breeding systems -- Apomixis and coppicing: life without sex -- Dioecy: separation as an example of obligate out-crossing -- Protogyny and protandry: segregation of sexual function -- Colour plates -- 5 Spatial and temporal structure of rainforest: general mechanisms that influence pollination and reproductive ecology -- Phenology: recurrence of the flowering phenomenon -- Length of flowering life -- Forest strata and synusiae -- 6 Australian vegetation history and its influence on plant-pollinator relationships -- Plant-pollinator interactions -- Factors affecting movement and recruitment of pollinators -- Pollination of sparsely flowering species -- Pollination of mass-flowering species -- Sharing of pollinators: the 'guild' concept. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7 Pollination and the Australian flora -- Pollination in Australian Myrtaceae -- 8 Pollination syndromes: who brings the 'flower children' in rainforest? -- Wind pollination in flowering plants and the ballistic release of pollen -- Pollen sculpture in subtropical rainforest plants: is wind pollination more common than suspected? -- General entomophily: pollination by the small and the many -- Pollination by beetles (cantharophily) -- Pollination by Diptera (myophily and sapromyophily) -- Pollination by Hymenoptera -- Pollination by wasps (sphecophily) -- Pollination by ants (myrmecophily) -- Pollination by bees (melittophily) -- Pollination by Lepidoptera (butterflies -- psychophily, moths -- phalaenophily) -- Pollination by miscellaneous insects and other invertebrate groups, especially thrips -- Pollination by birds (ornithophily) -- Pollination by fruit-bats, flying-foxes and blossom-bats (chiropterophily) -- Pollination by non-flying mammals -- Pollination by reptiles (saurophily) -- 9 Pollination ecology of Australian subtropical rainforests: implications for the conservation of remnant communities -- Background -- Impacts of fragmentation and conservation of remnants -- Further contributions to the dark side: fragmentation and risks to plant breeding systems -- Appendix 1. Case studies of pollination in the Australian rainforest flora -- Case 1. The forest floor: mixed hover-fly (Syrphidae) and bee pollination in Pollia crispata (adapted from Williams and Walker 2003) -- Case 2. The forest subcanopy: bee pollination and buzz-collection of pollen in the threatened Australian shrub Senna acclinis (adapted from G. Williams 1998) -- Case 3. The forest subcanopy: vertebrate-invertebrate pollinator plasticity in the Australian tropical rainforest tree Syzygium cormiflorum. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Case 4. The forest canopy: pollination of the rainforest pioneer tree Alphitonia excelsa (adapted from Williams and Adam 2001) -- Case 5. A rainforest tree nearly too far away: Grevillea robusta -- Case 6. Littoral rainforest: breeding systems and flowering periods in an endangered maritime-associated ecosystem -- Appendix 2. Large insects and their place in the scheme of things -- Pollen loads carried by large insects in Australian rainforests -- Examples of large pollen-carrying insect taxa -- Summary -- Appendix 3. Generalised pollen groups based on exine sculpture -- Appendix 4. Captions to photographs -- Appendix 5. Divisions of geologic time -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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| 653 | |a Forests And Forestry | ||
| 653 | |a Botany | ||
| 653 | |a Climatic Changes | ||
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| 758 | |i has work: |a The flowering of Australia's rainforests (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFvbtcQ8DhPXc8FK46yVyd |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Williams, Geoff |t The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests |d Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing,c2021 |z 9781486314270 |
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