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Pollination and Floral Ecology /

"The most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This beautifully illustrated book describes how flowers use colors, shapes, and scents to advertise themselves; how they offer pollen...

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Autor principal: Willmer, Pat, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "The most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades. This 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 depth, including the timing and patterning of flowering, competition among flowering plants to attract certain visitors and deter others, and the many ways plants and animals can cheat each other ... Pays special attention to the prevalence of specialization and generalization in animal-flower interactions, and examines how a lack of distinction between casual visitors and true pollinators can produce misleading conclusions about flower evolution and animal-flower mutualism. This one-of-a-kind reference also gives insights into the vital pollination services that animals provide to crops and native flora, and sets these issues in the context of today's global pollination crisis. Provides the most up-to-date resource on pollination and floral ecology -- Describes flower advertising features and rewards, foraging and learning by flower-visiting animals, behaviors of generalist and specialist pollinators, and more -- Examines the ecology and evolution of animal-flower interactions, from the molecular to macroevolutionary scale -- Features hundreds of color and black-and-white illustrations."--Provided by publisher 
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