The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests : : Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution.
An introduction to pollination ecology in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Collingwood : : CSIRO Publishing,, 2021. Ã2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.