The Ecology and Evolution of Flowers

Preface ; 1. David G. Lloyd and the evolution of floral biology: from natural history to strategic analysis ; PART 1 STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES ON FLORAL BIOLOGY ; 2. Selection on reproductive characters: conceptual foundations and their extension to pollinator interactions ; 3. Evolutionarily stable reproductive investment and sex allocation in plants ; 4. Pollen and ovule fates and reproductive performance by flowering plants ; PART 2 ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF FLORAL FUNCTION AND ITS EVOLUTION ; 5. Models of pollinator-mediated gene dispersal in plants ; 6. Pollinator responses to plant communities and implications for reproductive character evolution ; 7. Non-pollinator agents of selection on floral traits ; 8. Flowering phenologies of animal-pollinated plants: reproductive strategies and agents of selection ; 9. Flower performance in human-altered habitats ; PART 3 MATING STRATEGIES AND SEXUAL SYSTEMS ; 10. Reproductive assurance and the evolution of uniparental reproduction in flowering plants ; 11. The evolution of separate sexes: a focus on the ecological context ; 12. Effects of colonization and metapopulation dynamics on the evolution of plant sexual systems ; 13. Floral design and the evolution of asymmetrical mating systems ; PART 4 FLORAL DIVERSIFICATION ; 14. Ecological genetics of floral evolution ; 15. Geographical context of floral evolution: towards an improved research programme in floral diversification ; 16. Pollinator-driven speciation in plants ; 17. Floral Characters and Species Diversification ; 18. Floral Biology of Hybrid Zones ; GLOSSARY

Lawrence Harder is Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary.Spencer Barrett is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the 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 GBP37.50.' Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 2007 38:2