The Evolutionary Ecology of Plants

About this book

Reprint of a 1989 book.

This book presents a broad view of contemporary research in evolutionary plant ecology. It illustrates the broad spectrum of life-history stages which affect plant reproductive success in some fashion.

Contents

- Preface
- Introduction Herbert Baker: A Renaissance Botanist
- Evolutionary Dynamics
- Plastids in a Changing Environment
- Adaptive Shifts Toward Hummingbird Pollination
- Early Maturity, Small Flowers and Autogamy: A Developmental Connection?
- Chromosome Variation and Evolution in American and Asian Trillium Species
- Polyploid Polymorphism in Grasses of the North American Prairie
- The Genetic Structure of Tropical Tree Populations: Associations with Reproductive Biology
- Breeding Systems
- The Evolutionary Breakdown of Heterostyly
- Facultative Xenogamy: Examination of a Mixed Mating System
- Baker's Law: Plant Breeding Systems and Island Colonization
- Reproductive Biology
- Pollenkitt in Plant Reproduction
- Reproductive Biology of Hibiscus moscheutos (Malvaceae)
- Relationships between Components of Plant form and Seed Output in Collinsonia verticillata (Lamiaceae)
- Size Dependent Reproduction in Poa annua and P. pratensis
- Yearly Fluctuations in a Vernal Pool Annual, Sidalcea hirsuta
- Plant-Animal Interactions
- Floral Herbivory and the Apiaceae: Antagonistic or Mutualistic Interactions?
- Is Extrafloral Nectar Production an Inducible Defense?
- Leaf Domatia and Mites: A Plant Protection
- Mutualism Hypothesis
- Evolution and Organization in Communities
- Response of Abies to Fire and Phellinus
- Interactions between Genetic and Ecological Patchiness in Forest Trees and their Dependent Species
- Dynamics of Plants in Buffalo Wallows: Ephemeral Pools in the Great Plains
- Evolution in Cultivated Plants
- Maize, Man and Vegetation in North
- Central Peru
- Latitudinal Variation and Evolution in Wild Soybean (Glycine soja Sieb. & Zucc.) Populations
- Reproductive Biology and Evolution of the Cultivated Chayote Sechium edule: Cucurbitaceae
- Biogeography and Conservation
- Ecological and Behavioral Aspects of Seasonal Diphenism in Eurema daira (Pieridae, Lepidoptera)
- Ecological and Evolutionary Sorting of 12 Sympatric Species of Centris Bees in Costa Rican Dry Forest
- Ecology and Evolution in the Great Plains
- Affirmative Action for Insects in Tropical National Parks

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