Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination
Author: Lars Chittka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001-05-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1139430041

Important breakthroughs have recently been made in our understanding of the cognitive and sensory abilities of pollinators: how pollinators perceive, memorise and react to floral signals and rewards; how they work flowers, move among inflorescences and transport pollen. These new findings have obvious implications for the evolution of floral display and diversity, but most existing publications are scattered across a wide range of journals in very different research traditions. This book brings together for the first time outstanding scholars from many different fields of pollination biology, integrating the work of neuroethologists and evolutionary ecologists to present a multi-disciplinary approach. Aimed at graduates and researchers of behavioural and pollination ecology, plant evolutionary biology and neuroethology, it will also be a useful source of information for anyone interested in a modern view of cognitive and sensory ecology, pollination and floral evolution.

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination

Cognitive Ecology of Pollination
Author: Lars Chittka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-08-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521018401

Important breakthroughs have recently been made in our understanding of the cognitive and sensory abilities of pollinators, such as how pollinators perceive, memorize, and react to floral signals and rewards; how they work flowers, move among inflorescences, and transport pollen. These new findings have obvious implications for the evolution of floral display and diversity, but most existing publications are scattered across a wide range of journals in very different research traditions. This book brings together outstanding scholars from many different fields of pollination biology, integrating the work of neuroethologists and evolutionary ecologists to present a multidisciplinary approach.

Pollination and Floral Ecology

Pollination and Floral Ecology
Author: Pat Willmer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2011-07-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0691128618

Pollination and Floral Ecology is a very comprehensive reference work to all aspects of pollination biology.

Floral Mimicry

Floral Mimicry
Author: Steven D. Johnson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2016
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0198732694

Thie is the first definitive book on floral mimicry, providing a wider treatise on floral adaptation and plant evolution.

Plant-Pollinator Interactions

Plant-Pollinator Interactions
Author: Nickolas Merritt Waser
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2006-01-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226874001

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Pollination Biology

Pollination Biology
Author: Dharam P. Abrol
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2011-10-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9400719426

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology. It also highlights relationships between introduced and wild pollinators and consequences of such introductions on communities of wild pollinating insects. The chapters on biochemical basis of plant-pollination interaction, pollination energetics, climate change and pollinators and pollinators as bioindicators of ecosystem functioning provide a base for future insights into pollination biology. The role of honeybees and wild bees on crop pollination, value of bee pollination, planned honeybee pollination, non-bee pollinators, safety of pollinators, pollination in cages, pollination for hybrid seed production, the problem of diseases, genetically modified plants and bees, the role of bees in improving food security and livelihoods, capacity building and awareness for pollinators are also discussed.

Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships

Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships
Author: Sébastien Patiny
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 501
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 113950407X

What are the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological implications behind a pollinator choosing its favourite flower? Sixty-five million years of evolution has created the complex and integrated system which we see today and understanding the interactions involved is key to environmental sustainability. Examining pollination relationships from an evolutionary perspective, this book covers both botanical and zoological aspects. It addresses the puzzling question of co-speciation and co-evolution and the complexity of the relationships between plant and pollinator, the development of which is examined through the fossil record. Additional chapters are dedicated to the evolution of floral displays and signalling, as well as their role in pollination syndromes and the building of pollination networks. Wide-ranging in its coverage, it outlines current knowledge and complex emerging topics, demonstrating how advances in research methods are applied to pollination biology.

Ecology and Evolution of Flowers

Ecology and Evolution of Flowers
Author: Lawrence D. Harder
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2006-11-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0198570856

Floral biology, floral function, sexual systems, diversification.