dinosaur/pterosaur pollinators

[Stephan Pickering <stefanpickering2002@yahoo.com>]

The complex interrelationality between
dinosaurs/pterosaurs as pollinators has, from
time-to-time, been explored, and the literature is
panoramic and worth perusing for inferences.It is
logical small theropods, pterosaurs, and ornithopods
were, in the main, omnivores (insects, nectar, e.g.),
and they were actants in often environmentally
stressed biozones.
I would recommend as good introductions:
D.W. Inouye, 1983. The ecology of nectar robbing, In:
T.S. Elias & B.L. Bentley eds., The biology of
nectaries (Columbia University Press), pp. 153-173
D.W. Inoye, D.E. Gill, M.R. Dudash, C.B. Fenster,
1994. A model and lexicon for pollen fate. American
Jour. Botany 81(12):1517-1530
B.M. Larson & S.C. Barrett, 2000. A comparative
analysis of pollen limitation in flowering plants.
Biological Journal [London] 69(4):503-520
J.E. Maloof & D.W. Inouye, 2000. Are nectar robbers
cheaters or mutualists? Ecology 81(10):2651-2661
B.M. Larson, P.G. Kevan, D.W. Inouye, 2001. Flies and
flowers. Canadian Entomologist 133(4):439-466

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