Angiosperm

by Hong-hwa Chen (Author), Wen-huei Chen (Editor)

The identification of pollen is widely used in the reconstruction of vegetation, the climate of the past, and plant biodiversity.

This book explores the diversity of flower symmetry and the evolutionary patterns of internal structures of generative organs in angiosperms. The book also covers the diversity of plant-pollinator interactions, the impact of non-native exotic plant communities on native plants and pollinators, and strategies for the restoration of pollinator communities.

This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European researchers discovering angiosperm-like pollen from the Triassic; and most importantly 3) the discovery of a perfect flower from the Jurassic.