Why Are There So Many Kinds of Flowering Plants?
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 31 (8), 572-581
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1308218
Abstract
Angiosperms and the animals they support have given rise to a terrestrial biota far richer than any that came before. Insect pollination, effective dispersal systems, diversity of growth forms, and many other factors have allowed flowering plants to dominate highly dynamic and species-rich vegetation.Keywords
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