THE NATURAL HISTORY OF POLLINATION (NN 83)

Proctor, Michael & Yeo, Peter & Lack, Andrew

ISBN 10: 000219905X / ISBN 13: 9780002199056

Published by Harper Collins, 1997

About this Item

Circa 1997. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. New Naturalist series no. 83. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards with gilt title and NN to spine. 2nd printing. Spine of wrapper is slightly faded. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NATURAL HISTORY OF POLLINATION (NN 83)
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 000219905X
• ISBN 13: 9780002199056
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The importance of insects in pollinating flowers is today so well known, it is easy to forget that it was discovered less than 200 years ago. Before that, it was believed that the concern of bees with flowers was simply a matter of collecting honey. The methods by which pollen reaches the female flower, enabling fertilization and seed production to take place, include some of the most varied and fascinating mechanisms in the natural world. This guide describes all the ways pollination is effected - by wind, w even bats - but principally in many wonderful ways by a diversity of insect species.

About the Author

Michael Proctor is an Honorary Research Fellow (and until his retirement in 1994 was Reader in Plant Ecology) at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter. With wide interests in ecology and plant biosystematics, his interest in insects and pollination ecology dates from his student days, shared with Peter Yeo at Cambridge. He has published many scientific papers on a variety of ecological topics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.