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Pollination and floral ecology

Pat Willmer

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Essentials of flower design and function
Why pollination is interesting
Floral design and function
Pollination, mating, and reproduction in plants
Evolution of flowers, pollination, and plant diversity
Floral advertisements and floral rewards
Advertisements 1: visual signals and floral color
Advertisements 2: olfactory signals
Rewards 1: the biology of pollen
Rewards 2: the biology of nectar
Other floral rewards
Rewards and costs: the environmental economics of pollination
Pollination syndromes?
Types of flower visitors: syndromes, constancy, and effectiveness
Generalist flowers and generalist visitors
Pollination by flies
Pollination by butterflies and moths
Pollination by birds
Pollination by bats
Pollination by nonflying vertebrates and other oddities
Pollination by bees
Wind and water: abiotic pollination
Syndromes and webs: specialists and generalists
Floral ecology
The timing and patterning of flowering
Living with other flowers: competition and pollination ecology
Cheating by flowers: cheating the visitors and cheating other flowers
Flower visitors as cheats and the plants' responses
The interactions of pollination and herbivory
Pollination using florivores: from brood site mutualism to active pollination
Pollination in different habitats
The pollination of crops
The global pollination crisis.

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Pollination and floral ecology by Pat Willmer. ISBN 9780691128610. Published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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