Animal Pollination. Managed Pollinators.Wind-pollinated plants do not invest in resources that attract pollinating organisms, such as showy flowers, nectar, and scent. Windpollination for plants is just one example of this. Learning more about how windpollination works can help us gain a better understanding of this interesting process. Windpollination is predominantly a derived condition in angiosperms and is thought to evolve in response to ecological conditions that render animal pollination less advantageous. Windpollination (also called 'Anemophily') describes the process of the transfer of pollen from one individual plant to another, whereby the pollen is carried by air currents. Windpollination (anemophily) of angiosperms probably evolved from insect pollination (entomophily) in response to pollinator limitation and changes in the abiotic environment. Although windpollination seems to be less complex than animal pollination, there are at least 65 species of wind-pollinated plants that evolved from insect-pollinated species. WindPollination. Save. 4.0 (1 review).Win-Pollinated stigmas is alot larger than normal so that pollen grain has a bigger target. WP plants include most trees and grass. 2. The author suggests that explanations of windpollination that emphasize the production of vast quantities of pollen to compensate for the randomness of the pollination process are. A number of morphologic features have evolved in evolutionarily divergent plant groups that appear to increase the efficiency of windpollination. Globally, the incidence of windpollination increases with both latitude and elevation. It is most common in our temperate deciduous and in boreal forests but extremely uncommon in...
