Pollination and Floral Ecology (eBook)

Patricia Willmer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
792 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3894-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Autor

Pat Willmer is professor of zoology at the University of St. Andrews. She has published extensively on pollination biology in leading scientific journals. Her books include Environmental Physiology of Animals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.7.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 301 color illus. 308 line illus. 93 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: abiotic pollination • aconitum • Active pollination • Advertisement • ambush predator • Amphibian • anemophilous plant • anemophily • Angiosperm • animal • animal pollination • animals • animalЦlower interaction • Ant • Anthesis • Anthophora • Apiaceae • Araceae • Asclepias • Asteraceae • Banksia • bat pollination • Bats • BEE • bee pollination • bees • beetle • Behavior • bird pollination • Birds • Bombyliidae • Bract • bribe • Brood (honey bee) • brood site mutualism • Bumblebee • Butterfly • Buzz pollination • Cactus • Carpenter bee • carrion fly • catkin • cheating • chiropterophily • Cirsium • climate change • Coevolution • Color Vision • Competition • conifer • Cost • crop breeding • crop management • Crop pollination • Crop productivity • crops • Cross-Fertilization • cross-pollination • Dehiscence (botany) • deserts • Dicotyledon • Diptera • Disease • Diversification • Ecology • ecosystem • ectotherm vertebrate • empty flower • Eristalis • Exudate • Fabaceae • feeding apparatus • female choice • Fertilisation • Ficus • Fig wasp • fire • fish • floral color • floral constancy • floral design • floral display • floral divergence • floral longevity • floral odor • floral pigment • floral scent • floral sex • floral shape • floral signal • floral size • floral theft • floral tissue • floral variation • florivore • florivory • Flower • Flower constancy • flower deception • flower evolution • Flowering • flowering frequency • flowering pattern • flowering period • flowering phenology • flowering plant • flower morphology • flower pollination • Flowers • flower visitor • flowerаollinator interaction • fly pollination • foraging • foraging behavior • fungus • Geitonogamy • Gene Flow • generalist flower • generalist visitor • Generalization • Germination • Grasshopper • Gynoecium • Habitat • habitat degradation • habitat fragmentation • hawkmoth • Heliconia • Herbivore • herbivory • high altitude • high latitude • Hitchhiker • honey bee • Honeybee • hoverfly • Humidity • hummingbird • hybrid crop • hydrophily • Hymenoptera • Inflorescence • insect • intensive agriculture • invasive plant species • Invertebrate • Ipomopsis aggregata • Islands • Labellum (botany) • Lamiaceae • larva • learning • legume • Lepidoptera • Lipid • male competition • marsupial • Maternity • Mediterranean • Megachiroptera • melittophily • Microchiroptera • Microclimate • mimicry • Mimulus • Monkey • Monocotyledon • mutualism • Mutualism (biology) • nectar • nectar biology • nectar concentration • nectar gathering • nectar guide • Nectarivore • nectar production • nectar secretion • Nectar source • nectar volume • nectary • nonflying mammal • nonflying vertebrate • nursery pollination • Obligate • odor • odor learning • Oil • Olfaction • olfactory signal • Orchidaceae • ornithophily • outcrossing • Ovary (botany) • ovule • Paternity • Penstemon • perching bird • petal • phalaenophily • phenology • Pheromone • Plant • Plant diversity • plant fertilization • plant mating • plant pollination • plant reproduction • plants • plant sex • plant speciation • plantаollinator interaction • Pollen • pollen biology • pollen competition • pollen dispersal • pollen eating • pollen gathering • pollen packaging • pollen parasite • pollen transfer • pollen tube • Pollination • pollination biology • pollination crisis • pollination ecology • Pollination syndrome • pollination syndromes • pollination webs • pollinator • pollinator declines • pollinator effectiveness • pollinator specialization • predation • Proteaceae • pseudoflower • pseudonectar • pseudopollen • psychophily • Ranunculaceae • raphanus • reproductive isolation • Reproductive success • Resin • Reward • Rosaceae • Scent • Scrophulariaceae • secretion • seed crop • seed dispersal • seed-eating pollination • selection • self-fertilization • selfing • self-pollination • Sepal • sexual function • Shrub • Sociality • specialist flower • Specialization • Speciation • Sphingidae • sphingophily • stamen • stigmatic exudate • stingless bee • Sunbird • thrip • Thrips • Trade-off • trichome • tropics • Vertebrate • visitation pattern • visual signal • Wasp • water pollination • Wax • wind pollination
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3894-0 / 1400838940
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3894-3 / 9781400838943