Blütenökologie - Band 2: Sexualität und Partnerwahl im Pflanzenreich

Flower ecology investigates the relationships between flowers and their pollinators. While the first volume of this work focused on animal partners, the second volume examines the sexual life of plants. It explores how sexuality came about in plants in the first place, how they managed the transition from water to land, and how they found and shaped their love messengers to reach their goal: the production of new offspring with new characteristics to meet the ever-changing demands of life. The plants are amazingly imaginative: they lure and reward their pollinators with nectar and ragweed, but they also use deceit and deception to secure the services of their animal partners. From the content: - Sexuality in the plant kingdom - Flower genetics - Nectar and Ambrosia - Offers in flowers - The unfine side.