Draft 2: PETAL ATTRACTION

This topic submitted by Bethany Fish, Stephanie Wolfe, Mike Magee, and Katie Pekarek (pekarekm@muohio.edu) at 10:38 am on 9/21/99. Additions were last made on Wednesday, August 9, 2000. Section: Cummins

We are going to observe wildflowers at different times of day, under different atmospheric conditions,
and other various locations around this campus such as: the Miami Gardens, Bachelor Trail, Harkers
Run, Western Woods, Peffer Memorial Woods, and Silvoor Sanctuary. Grouping flowers by color,
size, height, and scent, our group will observe and record the type and frequency of the pollinators that
visit these floral groupings. We hope to discover the ideal floral characteristics that attract reoccurring
pollinators. These discoveries, we believe, will eventually show that flying pollinators are attracted to
certain groups of flowers, while non-flying pollinators will tend to pollinate a different category of
blossom.

BIBLIOGRAPHY~
Articles and other related texts:

Batra, SWT. "Bees and pollination in our changing Environment." Apidologie(1995) 26: 361-370.

Carthew, S.M., and R.L. Goldingay. "Non-flying mammals as pollinators." Reviews.

Cummins, R. Hayes. "Wild Flowers in Miami University's Natural Areas". 29 Dec. 1998. Recovered from the World Wide Web 8 Sept. 1999. Natural Systems Home Page

Harder, Lawrence D. "Pollen-size comparisons among animal-pollinated angiosperms with differrent pollination characteristics." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society(1998), 64:513-525.

Vega-Redondo, Fernando. "Pollination and Reward: A Game-Theoretic Approach." Games and Economic Behavior(1996), 12: 127-142.


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