By facilitating plant reproduction, pollinators perform a crucial ecological function that
supports the majority of the world's plant diversity, and associated organisms, and a …

Growth in seed dispersal studies has been fast‐paced since the seed disperser
effectiveness (SDE) framework was developed 17 yr ago. Thus, the time is ripe to revisit the …

Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of
economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been …

Bees, hoverflies and butterflies are taxa frequently studied as pollinators in agricultural and
conservation contexts. Although there are many records of non-syrphid Diptera visiting …

▪ Abstract The pollination of flowering plants by animals represents a critical ecosystem
service of great value to humanity, both monetary and otherwise. However, the need for …

▪ Abstract Floral evolution has often been associated with differences in pollination
syndromes. Recently, this conceptual structure has been criticized on the grounds that …

One view of pollination systems is that they tend toward specialization. This view is implicit in
many discussions of angiosperm evolution and plant—pollinator coevolution and in the long …

Disperser effectiveness is the contribution a disperser makes to the future reproduction of a
plant. Although it is a key notion in studies of seed dispersal by animals, we know little about …

Research linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been mostly centred on
the influence of species richness on ecosystem functions in small‐scale experiments with …

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …