Plant-pollinator interactions : from specialization to generalization
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
Aufsatzsammlung
xii, 445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9780226874005, 0226874001
60349160
Part I. Introduction and history. Specialization and generalization in plant-pollinator interactions: a historical perspective / Nickolas M. Waser
Part II. The ecology and evolution of specialized and generalized pollination / introductory comments by Jeff Ollerton, W. Scott Armbruster, and Diego P. Vázquez
The evolution of specialized floral phenotypes in a fine-grained pollination environment / Paul A. Aigner
Shifts between bee and bird pollination in penstemons / Paul Wilson, Maria Clara Castellanos, Andrea D. Wolfe, and James D. Thomson
Incidental mutualisms and pollen specialization among bees / Robert L. Minckley and T'ai H. Roulston
Characterizing floral specialization by bees: analytical methods and a revised lexicon for oligolecty / James H. Cane and Sedonia Sipes
Rewardless flowers in the angiosperms and the role of insect cognition in their evolution / Susanne S. Renner
Ecological factors that promote the evolution of generalization in pollination systems / José M. Gómez and Regino Zamora
Part III. Community and biogeographic perspectives / introductory comments by Nickolas M. Waser and Jeff Ollerton
The ecological consequences of complex topology and nested structure in pollination webs / Pedro Jordano, Jordi Bascompte, and Jens M. Olesen
Community-wide patterns of specialization in plant-pollinator interactions revealed by null models / Diego P. Vázquez and Marcelo A. Aizen
Mutual use of resources in Mediterranean plant-pollinator communities: how specialized are pollination webs? / Theodora Petanidou and Simon G. Potts
Measuring generalization and connectance in temperate, year-long active systems / Diego Medan, Alicia M. Basilio, Mariano Devoto, Norberto J. Bartoloni, Juan P. Torretta, and Theodora Petanidou
Evolutionary and ecological aspects of specialized pollination: views from the arctic to the tropics / W. Scott Armbruster
Geographical variation in diversity and specificity of pollination systems / Jeff Ollerton, Steven D. Johnson, and Andrew B. Hingston
Part IV. Applications in agriculture and conservation / introductory comments by Nickolas M. Waser and Margaret M. Mayfield
A typology of pollination systems: implications for crop management and the conservation of wild plants / Sarah A. Corbet
The conservation of specialized and generalized pollination systems in subtropical ecosystems: a case study / Suzanne Koptur
Ecology of plant reproduction: extinction risks and restoration perspectives of rare plant species / Manja M. Kwak and Renée M. Bekker
Bee diversity and plant-pollinator interactions in fragmented landscapes / Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Volker Gaebele, Thomas Alfert, and Teja Tscharntke
Part V. Final considerations: pollination compared to other interactions. "Biological barter": patterns of specialization compared across different mutualisms / Jeff Ollerton