Ecology and Evolution of Flowers

• Contributions from a global team of leading authorities
• Focuses on ecological and evolutionary processes rather than patterns, promoting a conceptual approach that fully integrates theory, experimental analysis and comparative methods
• Examines plant reproduction processes at the population, metapopulation, community, and geographical scales
• Places floral biology into the broader context of life-history evolution, and considers the functional linkages between flowers, inflorescences, and plant architecture

Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students taking courses in plant ecology, evolution, systematics, biodiversity and conservation. It will also be of interest and use to a broader audience of plant scientists seeking an authoritative overview of recent advances in floral biology.

Edited by Lawrence D. Harder, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, and Spencer C.H. Barrett, Professor & Canada Research Chair - Department of Botany, University of Toronto

""all researchers in the field of flower biology will find something to interest them in these thought-provoking reviews and syntheses"." - Systematic Biology

""This comprehensive book is dedicated to the late David G. Lloyd, whose conceptual synthesis laid the foundation for modern plant reproductive biology. The chapters draw from an international slate of experts and, like Lloyd's work itself, integrate mathematical theory and empiricism. This book provides a state-of-the-art view of reproductive biology today." Bioscience, October 2007"

"'An excellent buy for £37.50.' Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2007 38:2"

Preface
1: Spencer CH Barrett and Lawrence D Harder: David G. Lloyd and the evolution of floral biology: from natural history to strategic analysis
Part 1 Strategic perspectives on floral biology
2: Martin T Morgan: Selection on reproductive characters: conceptual foundations and their extension to pollinator interactions
3: Da-Yong Zhang: Evolutionarily stable reproductive investment and sex allocation in plants
4: Lawrence D Harder and Matthew B Routley: Pollen and ovule fates and reproductive performance by flowering plants
Part 2 Ecological context of floral function and its evolution
5: James E Cresswell: Models of pollinator-mediated gene dispersal in plants
6: Monica A Geber and David A Moeller: Pollinator responses to plant communities and implications for reproductive character evolution
7: Sharon Y Strauss and Justen B Whittall: Non-pollinator agents of selection on floral traits
8: Gaku Kudo: Flowering phenologies of animal-pollinated plants: reproductive strategies and agents of selection
9: Marcelo A Aizen and Diego P Vázquez: Flower performance in human-altered habitats
Part 3 Mating strategies and sexual systems
10: Christopher G Eckert, Karen E Samis and Sara Dart: Reproductive assurance and the evolution of uniparental reproduction in flowering plants
11: Tia-Lynn Ashman: The evolution of separate sexes: a focus on the ecological context
12: John R Pannell: Effects of colonization and metapopulation dynamics on the evolution of plant sexual systems
13: Spencer CH Barrett and Kathryn A Hodgins: Floral design and the evolution of asymmetrical mating systems
Part 4 Floral diversification
14: Jeffrey K Conner: Ecological genetics of floral evolution
15: Carlos M Herrera, María C Castellanos and Mónica Medrano: Geographical context of floral evolution: towards an improved research programme in floral diversification
16: Steven D Johnson: Pollinator-driven speciation in plants
17: Kathleen M Kay, Claudia Voelckel, Ji Y Yang, Kristina H Hufford, Debora D Kaska and Scott A Hodges: Floral Characters and Species Diversification
18: Diane R Campbell and George Aldridge: Floral Biology of Hybrid Zones
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