The flowering of Australia's rainforests : a plant and pollination miscellany /

Williams, Geoff, 1950-

The flowering of Australia's rainforests : a plant and pollination miscellany / Geoff Williams and Paul Adam. - Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., ©2010. - 1 online resource (xvi, 200 pages) : color illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-190) and index.

Cover; Acknowledgments; 1 Flowers and pollination in lore and legend; 2 Categorising rainforest plants; Colour Plates; 3 Rise of the angiosperms, and archaic vascular plants in Australia's rainforests; 4 Being a flower; 5 Introduction to breeding systems; 6 Spatial and temporal structure of rainforest: general mechanisms that influence pollination and reproductive ecology; 7 Australian vegetation history and its influence on plantpollinator relationships; 8 Pollination and the Australian flora; 9 Pollination syndromes: who brings the 'flower children' in rainforest?

"This book provides an overview of pollination in Australian rainforests, especially subtropical rainforests. It also examines the plant - pollinator relationships found in rainforests worldwide."--NHBS Environment Boostore.

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NATURE--Plants--Trees.
NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Forests & Rainforests.
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