The natural history of pollination
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, Oregon :
Timber Press,
1996,
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| Edition: | First published. |
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Table of Contents:
- The study of pollination: a short history.
- Flowers, pollination and fertilisation.
- The insect visitors I: beetles, flies and some others.
- The insect visitors II: Butterfliea and moths.
- The insect visitors III: bees and their relatives.
- The diversity of insects-pollinated flowers.
- The pollination of orchids.
- Birds, bats and other vertebrates.
- pollination by wind and water.
- Deception and diptera: "sapromyiophly".
- A home as a reward: brood-site pollination.
- Breeding systems: how important is cross-pollination?.
- Plant breeding and crop production: the Un -natural history of pollination.
- Pollination through geological time.
- Pollination, community and environment.
- Flowers, genes and plant populations.