Overview
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Amots Dafni
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Laboratory of Pollination Ecology, Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
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Michael Hesse
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Institut für Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
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Ettore Pacini
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Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy
Of interest to botanists, zoologists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists,
neurophysiologists
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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- Heide E. M. Dobson, Gunnar Bergström
Pages 63-87
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- Amots Dafni, David Firmage
Pages 113-132
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- Yiftach Vaknin, Samuel Gan-Mor, Avital Bechar, Beni Ronen, D. Eisikowitch
Pages 133-142
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- T’ai H. Roulston, James H. Cane
Pages 187-209
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- S. D. Johnson, T. J. Edwards
Pages 243-269
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- Michael Hesse, Stefan Vogel, Heidemarie Halbritter
Pages 281-292
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Back Matter
Pages 321-341
About this book
Pollen studies make important contributions nature, into three main themes: pollen struc to our knowledge in many interdisciplinary ture and constituents, pollen evolutionary arenas. Pollen identification is widely used in ecology and the pollen-pollinator interface. reconstruction of, e.g., vegetation, the climate Several papers overlap somewhat or are of the past, and plant biodiversity. Studies perhaps even somewhat contradictory and concerning pollen structure, size and form are reflect the author's own ideas and experience. key issues in basic sciences, as, e.g., plant Some could be understood more deeply by taxonomy and evolution, but are also of consulting other closely related articles. The importance in applied fields as, e.g., plant reader is strongly referred to the respective breeding. In pollination studies pollen is literature list of each article. generally used specifically to identify food ofanther ripening and pollen The last steps development (Pacini) and the mature pollen sources of visitors and to reconstruct their foraging routes. Fewer have been devoted to wall structure (Hesse) are key factors to pollen collection mechanisms and to the struc understand pollen dispersal mechanisms in ture and content of pollen in relation to its biotic pollination (Stroo) as well as abiotic pollination (Ackerman). Pollen size, shape, function.
Reviews
"... It is a book that has much to offer all students of plant/animal interactions." Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2001
Editors and Affiliations
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Laboratory of Pollination Ecology, Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
Amots Dafni
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Institut für Botanik und Botanischer Garten, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria
Michael Hesse
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Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy
Ettore Pacini