[Pollinator] Fwd: Great New Book

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Thanks to Larry Stritch for  this! 
 
 
I just purchased a copy of this title recently.  It is  a real asset to 
anyone interested in pollination and floral  ecology. 

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(http://books.google.com/books/p/princeton?id=UVGi6W8QdO4C&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI&hl=en)    
Pollination  and Floral Ecology
Pat  Willmer

Cloth |  2011 | $95.00 / £65.00 | ISBN:  9780691128610
828 pp. | 8 x 10 | 301 color illus. 308 line illus. 93  tables. 
e-Book  | 2011 | $95.00 | ISBN:  9781400838943 
_Shopping  Cart_ (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9485.html#cart)  | 
_Endorsements_ (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9485.html#reviews)  | _Table 
of  Contents_ (http://press.princeton.edu/TOCs/c9485.html) 
_Chapter 1  [PDF]_ (http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9485.pdf)  
Google full text  of this book:

Pollination and  Floral Ecology is the most  comprehensive single-volume 
reference to all aspects of pollination  biology--and the first fully 
up-to-date resource of its kind to appear  in decades. This beautifully illustrated 
book describes how flowers use  colors, shapes, and scents to advertise 
themselves; how they offer  pollen and nectar as rewards; and how they share 
complex interactions  with beetles, birds, bats, bees, and other creatures. The 
ecology of  these interactions is covered in depth, including the timing 
and  patterning of flowering, competition among flowering plants to attract  
certain visitors and deter others, and the many ways plants and animals  can 
cheat each other. 
Pollination and  Floral Ecology pays special  attention to the prevalence 
of specialization and generalization in  animal-flower interactions, and 
examines how a lack of distinction  between casual visitors and true pollinators 
can produce misleading  conclusions about flower evolution and 
animal-flower mutualism. This  one-of-a-kind reference also gives insights into the 
vital pollination  services that animals provide to crops and native flora, and 
sets these  issues in the context of today's global pollination  crisis. 
    *   Provides the most up-to-date  resource on pollination and floral 
ecology  
    *   Describes flower advertising  features and rewards, foraging and 
learning by flower-visiting  animals, behaviors of generalist and specialist 
pollinators--and  more  
    *   Examines the ecology and  evolution of animal-flower interactions, 
from the molecular to  macroevolutionary scale  
    *   Features hundreds of color  and black-and-white illustrations
Pat  Willmer is professor of  zoology at the University of St. Andrews. She 
has published extensively  on pollination biology in leading scientific 
journals. Her books  include Environmental  Physiology of Animals. 
Endorsements: 
"This  is an impressive and valuable contribution to pollination ecology,  
floral evolution, plant biology, and entomology. The book is extremely  
up-to-date. I am convinced it will become the central reference in the  field 
and remain so for many years. A pleasure to read."--W. Scott  Armbruster, 
University of Portsmouth and University of Alaska,  Fairbanks 
"There  has not been a treatment of pollination biology as extensive as 
this  since Faegri and van der Pijl's classic book was first published in the  
1960s. Willmer does an amazing job catching the reader up on the  literature 
of the last forty years while keeping the material accessible  to the 
novice biologist. This will become the bible for floral  biologists studying 
plant-pollinator interactions."--Charles B. Fenster,  University of Maryland     
 
Larry 
Larry Stritch, Ph.D. 
National Botanist 
RGE Staff  - 3S 
201 14th Street, SW 
Washington, DC 
202-205-1279 


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