Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Editors

Editors’ Preface

Authors’ Foreword

CHAPTER 1
THE STUDY OF POLLINATION: A SHORT HISTORY

CHAPTER 2
FLOWERS, POLLINATION AND FERTILISATION

CHAPTER 3
THE INSECT VISITORS I: BEETLES, FLIES AND SOME OTHERS

CHAPTER 4
THE INSECT VISITORS II: BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS

CHAPTER 5
THE INSECT VISITORS III: BEES AND THEIR RELATIVES

CHAPTER 6
THE DIVERSITY OF INSECT-POLLINATED FLOWERS

CHAPTER 7
THE POLLINATION OF ORCHIDS

CHAPTER 8
BIRDS, BATS AND OTHER VERTEBRATES

CHAPTER 9
POLLINATION BY WIND AND WATER

CHAPTER 10
DECEPTION AND DIPTERA: ‘SAPROMYIOPHILY’

CHAPTER 11
A HOME AS A REWARD: BROOD-SITE POLLINATION

CHAPTER 12
BREEDING SYSTEMS: HOW IMPORTANT IS CROSS-POLLINATION?

CHAPTER 13
PLANT BREEDING AND CROP PRODUCTION: THE UN-NATURAL HISTORY OF POLLINATION

CHAPTER 14
POLLINATION THROUGH GEOLOGICAL TIME

CHAPTER 15
POLLINATION, COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 16
FLOWERS, GENES AND PLANT POPULATIONS

References

Index

Plates

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