Pollination and floral ecology / Pat Willmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willmer, Pat, 1953- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollination.

Pollination by insects.

Pollination by animals.

Plant ecology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (789 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, [England] : Princeton University Press, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part I Essentials of Flower Design and Function

Chapter 1 Why Pollination Is Interesting 3

Chapter 2 Floral Design and Function 11

Chapter 3 Pollination, Mating, and Reproduction in Plants 55

Chapter 4 Evolution of Flowers, Pollination, and Plant Diversity 88

Part II Floral Advertisements and Floral Rewards

Chapter 5 Advertisements 1: Visual Signals and Floral Color 105

Chapter 6 Advertisements 2: Olfactory Signals 134

Chapter 7 Rewards 1: The Biology of Pollen 154

Chapter 8 Rewards 2: The Biology of Nectar 190

Chapter 9 Other Floral Rewards 221

Chapter 10 Rewards and Costs: The Environmental Economics of Pollination 234

Part III Pollination Syndromes?

Chapter 11 Types of Flower Visitors: Syndromes, Constancy, and Effectiveness 261

Chapter 12 Generalist Flowers and Generalist Visitors 288

Chapter 13 Pollination by Flies 304

Chapter 14 Pollination by Butterflies and Moths 322

Chapter 15 Pollination by Birds 337

Chapter 16 Pollination by Bats 356

Chapter 17 Pollination by Nonflying Vertebrates and Other Oddities 370

Chapter 18 Pollination by Bees 378

Chapter 19 Wind and Water: Abiotic Pollination 418

Chapter 20 Syndromes and Webs: Specialists and Generalists 434

Part IV Floral Ecology

Chapter 21 The Timing and Patterning of Flowering 483

Chapter 22 Living with Other Flowers: Competition and Pollination Ecology 503

Chapter 23 Cheating by Flowers: Cheating the Visitors and Cheating Other Flowers 524

Chapter 24 Flower Visitors as Cheats and the Plants' Responses 542

Chapter 25 The Interactions of Pollination and Herbivory 554

Chapter 26 Pollination Using Florivores: From Brood Site Mutualism to Active Pollination 565

Chapter 27 Pollination in Different Habitats 575

Chapter 28 The Pollination of Crops 605

Chapter 29 The Global Pollination Crisis 620.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Willmer, Pat, 1953- Pollination and floral ecology.

ISBN:

9781400838943

OCLC:

758335828

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.