Pollination Biology: interdisciplinarity in education from molecules to landscapes

Abstract

The inter-relations between flowers and animals have excited the imaginations of scientific luminaries for over two centuries. The fascinating and intricate ways that cement the processes of the crucially important ecosystem function of pollination in environments from those in intensively managed agriculture to those in remote wilderness transcend disciplines from biogeography to biochemistry. It is little wonder that pollination lends itself to interdisciplinary instruction and a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning.