The Evolution of Entomophily and Diaspore Dispersal in Seed Plants, the Reproductive Biology of Basal Angiosperms, and the Development of Beetle Pollination in Gymnosperms and Angiosperms

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The book provides up-to-date information of evolution of land plant reproductive biology (pollination modes, seed dispersal and breeding systems) during the last 400 million years. What were the characteristics of the hypothetical survivors of early angiosperms? These questions are an active area of research and debate today. The third part of the book considers the importance of beetles in pollination, in certain gymnosperms, and in basal and certain advanced angiosperms. The facts and discussions presented in this book, based on the author´s broad experience and critical review of the pertinent literature, makes this tome an indispensable tool for biologists interested in the evolution of plant reproductive biology.
The facts and discussions presented in this book, based on the author´s broad experience and critical review of the pertinent literature, makes this tome an indispensable tool for biologists interested in the evolution of plant reproductive biology.

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Gerhard Gottsberger
Gerhard Gottsberger was born 30 December 1940 in Judenburg, Austria. He studied biology, geology, chemistry, pedagogy and philosophy at the University of Graz (1959-1963). His Ph.D. thesis (defended in 1966) dealt with the biology, reproduction and phytogeography of Myxomycetes in the province of Styria. From 1966 to 1968, funded by several grants from Brazilian institutions, he worked at the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Botanical Institute of the Secretary of Agriculture of São Paulo State. At the end of 1968, he became a professor of Systematic Botany in the Department of Botany at the University of Botucatu (UNESP), where he remained until 1981 when he moved to the Federal University of Maranhão in São Luís as a professor in the Biology Department. Two years later, he accepted a position as professor and director of the Botanical Garden in the Institute of Botany and Plant Physiology at the University of Giessen, Germany (1983-1993). Since 1993 he held the chair of the Department of Systematic Botany and Ecology at the University of Ulm, where he was also director of the Botanical Garden and the herbarium (ULM). He was a visiting scientist (1971) at the University of Nijmegen and a visiting professor at the Universities of Vitória (1979), Rio de Janeiro (1979) and Vienna (1974, 1976, 1980). Since 1980, he has been a professor and staff member of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus. After his retirement in 2006 he continued as a volunteer directing the Botanical Garden and the Herbarium until 2008. Since then, he and his wife Ilse are still partly responsible for the herbarium at the Botanical Garden of Ulm.

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