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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (789 p.)

1 online resource

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 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. Pollination and Floral Ecology 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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613310408

9781283310406

1283310406

9781400838943

1400838940

OCLC:

979726739