Blütenökologie - Band 2: Sexualität und Partnerwahl im Pflanzenreich

The ecology of flowers explores the relationships between flowers and their pollinators. While the first volume of this work focused on the animal partners, the second volume sheds light on the sexual life of plants. It investigates how sexuality in plants came to be, how they managed the transition from water to land, and how they found and shaped their love messengers to achieve their goal: the production of new offspring with new traits to meet the ever-changing demands of life. In this process, plants demonstrate remarkable ingenuity: they attract and reward their pollinators with nectar and ambrosia, but they also secure the services of their animal partners through deception and trickery. Contents include: - Sexuality in the plant kingdom - Flower genetics - Nectar and ambrosia - Offers in flowers - The unrefined side.