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The flowering of Australia's rainforests : a plant and pollination miscellany / Geoff Williams and Paul Adam.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Geoff, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rain forest plants--Australia--Miscellanea.
- Rain forest plants.
- Pollination--Australia--Miscellanea.
- Pollination.
- Rain forests--Australia--Miscellanea.
- Rain forests.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. It also examines the plant - pollinator relationships found in rainforests worldwide" --NHBS Environment Bookstore.
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgments; 1 Flowers and pollination in lore and legend; 2 Categorising rainforest plants; Colour Plates; 3 Rise of the angiosperms, and archaic vascular plants in Australia's rainforests; 4 Being a flower; 5 Introduction to breeding systems; 6 Spatial and temporal structure of rainforest: general mechanisms that influence pollination and reproductive ecology; 7 Australian vegetation history and its influence on plant-pollinator relationships; 8 Pollination and the Australian flora; 9 Pollination syndromes: who brings the 'flower children' in rainforest?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-643-10187-X
- 1-283-15533-8
- 9786613155337
- 0-643-09762-7
- OCLC:
- 645097429
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