Jon Lovett-Doust and Lesley (ed.)

Plant Reproductive Ecology

Patterns and Strategies
Herausgeber: Lovett-Doust, Jon; Lovett-Doust, Lesley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of reviews by leading investigators examines plant reproduction within a framework of evolutionary ecology. The contributors discuss conceptual issues, showing the importance of sex allocation, sexual selection and inclusive fitness, and the dimensions of paternity and maternity in plants. The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatibility in plants, the nature of sex choice, and sex dimorphism are all explored. Specific forms of biotic interactions shaping the evolution of plant reproductive strategy are discussed, and a taxonomically based review of the reproductive biology of non-angiosperm plant groups - such as bryophytes, ferns and algae - is presented. Together these studies focus on the complexities of plant life cycles and the distinctive reproductive biologies of these organisms, while showing the similarities between non-flowering plants and the more thoroughly documented flowering species.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780195063943
• ISBN-10: 0195063945
• Artikelnr.: 22308094

Inhaltsangabe

CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN PLANT BREEDING SYSTEMS: J. and L. Lovett-Doust: Sociology of plants - an emerging synthesis
Robert Bertin: Paternity in Plants
David Haig and Mark Westoby: Inclusive fitness, seed resources, and maternal care
Paul Cox: Monomorphic and dimorphic sexual strategies - a modular approach
Spencer Barrett: The evolution, maintenance, and loss of self-incompatability systems
Mark Schlessman: Gender diphasy ("sex choice")
ECOLOGICAL FORCES: Michael Zimmerman: Nectar production, flowering phenology, and strategies for pollination
Tom Lee: Patterns of fruit and seed production
Don Waller: Plant morphology and reproduction
Jacob Weiner: The influence of competition on plant reproduction
Steve Hendrix: Herbivory and its impact on plant reproduction
REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES OF NON-ANGIOSPERMS: Robert De Wreede and Terry Klinger: Reproductive strategies in algae
Brent Mishler: Reproductive ecology of bryophytes
Michael Cousens: Reproductive strategies of pteridophytes.