Plant-pollinator interactions in tropical lowland rain forests (TLRF) offer unique opportunities
to address several problems of current evolutionary and ecological interest. First …

Pollination plays a very crucial role in the sustainability of agricultural and natural
ecosystems. Insect pollinators are thought to be the most efficient pollinators. Beetles have …

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other
books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination …

Dichogamy is the separation of the presentation of pollen and stigmas in time within a plant.
It is a common but neglected feature of outcrossing angiosperms. Dichogamy has been …

A literature review of 34 families of flowering plants containing at least one species
pollinated primarily by beetles is presented. While the majority of species are represented by …

The Araceae are exceptionally diverse by nearly all phenetic criteria. The two most widely
accepted infrafamilial classification systems, those of Engler and Hutchinson, emphasize …

Pollination systems in extant archaic angiosperms and cycads share three important
characteristics. Based on these, it is suggested that insect pollination evolved primarily …

Phenology, floral biology, the reproductive system, and pollination of the macauba palm,
Acrocomia aculeata were studied in Central Brazil. The species is arborescent, single …

It is not often that a monographic work provides a generous mix of geography, biology,
ecology, conservation, taxonomy, identification keys, anecdotes, photographs, and eye …

Dieffenbachia is an monoecious understory herb of tropical rain forests that exhibits a
complex and specialized relationship with its beetle pollinators. The erect protogynous …