Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants [Paperback]

From the reviews: ...the present work is an invaluableaddition to the literature on reproductive biology ofplants... Few botanists today are better qualified than vander Pijl to write on dispersal (and pollination) biology...an excellent up-to-date treatment of a long neglectedsubject... this splendid volume is unlikely to be surpassedfor quite some time... ScienceFrom the reviews: ...the present work is an invaluableaddition to the literature on reproductive biology ofplants... Few botanists today are better qualified than vander Pijl to write on dispersal (and pollination) biology...an excellent up-to-date treatment of a long neglectedsubject... this splendid volume is unlikely to be surpassedfor quite some time... ScienceI. Introduction.- A. The Place of Dispersal in the Chain of Life.- B. Limitations and Objections.- C. History and General Literature.- II. General Terminology.- III. The Units of Dispersal.- Vegetative Parts in Dispersal and False Vivipary.- IV. The Relation Between Flowers, Seeds and Fruits.- A. Seed and Fruit.- B. Morphological Fruit Systems.- C. Morphological Interaction Between Fruit and Flower.- 1. General.- 2. Position.- 3. Monovuly and Monospermy.- 4. Inferiority and the Calyx.- D. Inadequacy of Current Fruit Terminology.- V. Ecological Dispersal Classes, Established on the Basis of the Dispersing Agents.- A. General.- B. Invertebrates.- C. Fishes and Ichthyochory.- D. Reptiles and Saurochory.- E. Birds and Ornithochory.- 1. Epizoochory by Birds.- 2. Synzoochorous Bird Diaspores.- 3. Endozoochory.- Non-adapted Diaspores.- Adapted Diaspores.- The Syndrome of Bird Diaspores.- Oil-containing Fruits.- Remarks on Evolution.- Mimesis (Imitative Seeds).- F. Mammals and Mammaliochory.- 1. General.- 2. Dyszoochory and Rodents.- 3. Accidental Endozoochory.- 4. Adaptive Endozoochory.- Ungulates.- Bats and Chiropterochory.- Primates.- Various Mammals.- G. Als$