Annals of Botany 2006 98(4):899-900; doi:10.1093/aob/mcl174
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Plantpollinator interactions: from specialization to generalization
Waser NM, Ollerton J. eds. 2006.
Chicago: Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. $45 (paperback). 488 pp.
Peter Klinkhamer
Email Klinkhamer@RULSFB.LeidenUniv.nl
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Highly specialized
pollination systems, such as figs and their wasp or orchids
that deceive bees in trying to make them mate with their floral
organs, are intuitively appealing to most people and have, therefore,
gained far more attention both in popular and scientific literature
than the more generalized pollination systems. For a long time
the dominant view was that many, or perhaps even most, plantpollinator
interactions were specialized. In 1996 Waser and his colleagues
tried to stir things up by writing an article in which they
argued that, in contrast to common belief, generalization was
widespread in plantpollinator systems.
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