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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Geoff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing, 2021.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.