Pollination and floral ecology /
Willmer, Pat,1953-
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Pollination.
Pollination by insects.
Pollination by animals.
Plant ecology.