Cognitive Ecology of Pollination: Animal Behaviour and Floral EvolutionLars Chittka, James D. Thomson Cambridge University Press, 28 may 2001 - 344 páginas Important breakthroughs have recently been made in our understanding of the cognitive and sensory abilities of pollinators: how pollinators perceive, memorise and react to floral signals and rewards; how they work flowers, move among inflorescences and transport pollen. These new findings have obvious implications for the evolution of floral display and diversity, but most existing publications are scattered across a wide range of journals in very different research traditions. This book brings together for the first time outstanding scholars from many different fields of pollination biology, integrating the work of neuroethologists and evolutionary ecologists to present a multi-disciplinary approach. Aimed at graduates and researchers of behavioural and pollination ecology, plant evolutionary biology and neuroethology, it will also be a useful source of information for anyone interested in a modern view of cognitive and sensory ecology, pollination and floral evolution. |
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2 Behavioral and neural mechanisms of learning and memory as determinants of flower constancy | 21 |
3 Subjective evaluation and choice behavior by nectarand pollencollecting bees | 41 |
from detection to closeup recognition | 61 |
5 Floral scent olfaction and scentdriven foraging behavior | 83 |
6 Adaptation constraint and chance in the evolution of flower color and pollinator color vision | 106 |
7 Foraging and spatial learning in hummingbirds | 127 |
foraging energetics and floral adaptations | 148 |
when does it matter? | 191 |
11 Effects of predation risk on pollinators and plants | 214 |
12 Pollinator preference frequency dependence and floral evolution | 237 |
causes and consequences | 259 |
14 Behavioral responses of pollinators to variation in floral display size and their influences on the evolution of floral | 274 |
15 The effects of floral design and display on pollinator economics and pollen dispersal | 297 |
looking beyond the ethological isolation paradigm | 318 |
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adaptation angiosperms Anim Behav Apidae Apis mellifera assortative mating attraction bats beetles Biol birds Bombus bumble bees bumblebees butterflies Chittka choice behavior cognitive color vision Comp Physiol concentration correlation cues Dafni detection discrimination disruptive selection distance divergence Dukas Ecology effects Entomol Evol evolution evolutionary experiments feeder flight floral display floral scent floral traits flower color flower constancy flower types flowers visited foraging behavior fragrance frequency-dependent Frequency-dependent selection genetic Giurfa glossophagine Goulson Harder hawkmoths Heinrich Helversen honeybees hummingbirds hybrid Hymenoptera increase individual pollinators inflorescences insects Ipomopsis Ipomopsis aggregata isolation Laverty learning Menzel morph frequency moths mushroom bodies nectar number of flowers odor Oecologia olfactory Optimal foraging patch patterns phenotypes plant species pollinator behavior pollinator visitation populations preference Pyke receptors reward rufous hummingbirds Schmid-Hempel selection sensory spatial memory speciation stimuli studies sucrose Thomson JD tion traplining variation visitation rate visual Waddington Waser NM Zool