Spring 2002
Reading List Students and Projects
Reading List for Pollination Biology, Spring 2002

Recommended Text:

Kearns and Inouye, Techniques for Pollination Biologists. University Press of Colorado, 1993.
Selected Literature:
Author Title Ref.
Aigner, Paul A. Optimality modeling and fitness trade-offs: when should plants become pollinator specialists? Oikos 95(1):177-184 . 2001
Bell, G. On the function of flowers. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 244, 223-265. 1985
Armstrong Goldman, Doris, and Mary F. Willson Sex Allocation in Functionally Hermaphroditic Plants: A Review and Critique. The Botanical Review 52(2):157-191. 1986
Harder, L.D. and S.C.H. Barrett The energy cost of bee pollination for Pontederia cordata (Pontederiaceae). Functional Ecology 6: 226-233. 1992
Heinrich, Bernd Bee Flowers: A Hypothesis on Flower Variety and Blooming Times. Evolution 29: 325-334. 1975
Heinrich, Bernd and Peter H. Raven Energetics and Pollination Ecology. Science 176:597-602. 1972
Herrera, Carlos M. Components of Pollinator "Quality": Comparative Analysis of a Diverse Insect Assemblage. Oikos 50: 79-90. 1987
Howell, D.J. and Barbara Schropfer Roth Sexual Reproduction in Agaves: The Benefits of Bats: The Cost of Semelparous Advertising. Ecology 62(1): 1-7. 1987
Jones, C. Eugene Pollinator Constancy as a Pre-Pollination Isolating Mechanism Between Sympatric Species of Cercidium. Evolution 32: 189-198. 1978
Johnson, Steven D. and Kim E. Steiner Generalization Versus Specialization in Plant Pollination Systems. TREE 15(4): 140-143. 2000
Mayfield, M. M., Waser, N.M., and M.V. Price Exploring the 'Most Effective Pollinator Principle' with Complex Flowers: Bumblebees and Ipomopsis aggregata. Annals of Botany 88: 591-596. 2001
Pyke, Graham H. Optimal Foraging in Bumblebees and Coevolution with Their Plants. Oecologia 36: 281-293. 1978
Queller, David C. Sexual Selection in a hermaphroditic plant. Nature 305: 706-707. 1983
Stiles, F. Gary Temporal Organization of Flowering among the Hummingbird Foodplants of a Tropical Wet Forest. Biotropica 10(3): 194-210. 1978
Rathke, Beverly Interactions For Pollination Among Coflowering Shrubs. Ecology 69(2): 446-457. 1988
_____________ Flowering Phenologies in a Shrub Community: Competition Journal of Ecology 76: 975-994. 1988
Simpson, Beryl B. Breeding Systems of Dominant Perennial Plants of Two Disjunct Warm Desert Ecosystems. Oecologia 27: 203-226. (1977)
Spears, E. Eugene Jr. A direct measure of pollinator effectiveness. Oecologia 57: 196-199. 1983
Stebbins, G. Ledyard Flowering Plants: Evolution above the Species Level. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1974. pp 60-67.
Waser, Nickolas M. Flower Constancy: Definition, Cause, and Measurement. The American Naturalist 127(5): 593-603. 1986
________, Lars Chittka, Mary V. Price, Neal M. Williams, and Jeff Ollerton Generalization in Pollination Systems, and Why It Matters. Ecology 77(4): 1043-1060. 1996
Wilson, P., J.D. Thomson, M. L. Stanton, and L. P. Rigney Beyond Floral Batemania: Gender Biases in Selection for Pollination Success. The American Naturalist 143(2): 283-296. 1994