Pollination and Floral Ecology /

Pollination and Floral Ecology / / Pat Willmer.

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Pollination and Floral Ecology is 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 themse...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Willmer, Pat,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (792 p.) :; 301 color illus. 308 line illus. 93 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Essentials of Flower Design and Function
  • Chapter 1. Why Pollination is Interesting
  • Chapter 2 Floral Design and Function
  • Chapter 3. Pollination, Mating, and Reproduction in Plants
  • Part II. Floral Advertisements and Floral Rewards
  • Chapter 5. Advertisements 1: Visual Signals and Floral Color
  • Chapter 6. Advertisements 2: Olfactory Signals
  • Chapter 7. Rewards 1: The Biology of Pollen
  • Chapter 8. Rewards 2: The Biology of Nectar
  • Chapter 9. Other Floral Rewards
  • Chapter 10. Rewards and Costs: The Environmental Economics of Pollination
  • Part III. Pollination Syndromes?
  • Chapter 11. Types of Flower Visitors: Syndromes, Constancy, and Effectiveness
  • Chapter 12. Generalist Flowers and Generalist Visitors
  • Chapter 13. Pollination by Flies
  • Chapter 14. Pollination by Butterflies and Moths
  • Chapter 15. Pollination by Birds
  • Chapter 16. Pollination by Bats
  • Chapter 17. Pollination by Nonflying Vertebrates and Other Oddities
  • Chapter 18. Pollination by Bees
  • Chapter 19. Wind and Water: Abiotic Pollination
  • Chapter 20. Syndromes and Webs: Specialists and Generalists
  • Part IV. Floral Ecology
  • Chapter 21. The Timing and Patterning of Flowering
  • Chapter 22. Living with Other Flowers: Competition and Pollination Ecology
  • Chapter 23. Cheating by Flowers: Cheating the Visitors and Cheating Other Flowers
  • Chapter 24. Flower Visitors as Cheats and the Plants' Responses
  • Chapter 25. The Interactions of Pollination and Herbivory
  • Chapter 26. Pollination Using Florivores: From Brood Site Mutualism to Active Pollination
  • Chapter 27. Pollination in Different Habitats
  • Chapter 28. The Pollination of Crops
  • Chapter 29. The Global Pollination Crisis
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Animal Genera
  • Index of Plant Genera

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