1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages) : color illustrations
Contents
Cover; Acknowledgments; 1 Flowers and pollination in lore and legend; 2 Categorising rainforest plants; Colour Plates; 3 Rise of the angiosperms, and archaic vascular plants in Australia's rainforests; 4 Being a flower; 5 Introduction to breeding systems; 6 Spatial and temporal structure of rainforest: general mechanisms that influence pollination and reproductive ecology; 7 Australian vegetation history and its influence on plantpollinator relationships; 8 Pollination and the Australian flora; 9 Pollination syndromes: who brings the 'flower children' in rainforest?
Summary
"This book provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. It also examines the plant - pollinator relationships found in rainforests worldwide."--NHBS Environment Boostore
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-190) and index
