Plant-Pollinator Interactions

From Specialization

Nickolas M. Waser, Jeff Ollerton

460 pages, parution le 20/01/2006

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Just as flowering plants depend on their pollinators, many birds, insects, and bats rely on plants for energy and nutrients. This plant-pollinator relationship is essential to the survival of natural and agricultural ecosystems. Plant-Pollinator Interactions portrays the intimate relationships of pollination over time and space and reveals patterns of interactions from individual to community levels, showing how these patterns change at different spatial and temporal scales.

Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton bring together experts from around the world to offer a comprehensive analysis of pollination, including the history of thinking about specialization and generalization and a comparison of pollination to other mutualisms. An overview of current thinking and of future research priorities, Plant-Pollinator Interactions covers an important theme in evolutionary ecology with far-reaching applications in conservation and agriculture. This book will find an eager audience in specialists studying pollination and other mutualisms, as well as with biologists who are interested in ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral aspects of the specialization and generalization of species.

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Introduction and History
The Ecology and Evolution of Specialized and Generalized
Community and Biogeographic Perspectives
Applications in Agriculture and Conservation
Final Considerations: Pollination Compared to Other Interactions

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Éditeur(s)	The University of Chicago Press
Auteur(s)	Nickolas M. Waser, Jeff Ollerton
Parution	20/01/2006
Nb. de pages	460
Format	15 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	605g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780226874005
ISBN13	978-0-226-87400-5