Tropical Fruits and Frugivores

The Search for Strong Interactors

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-09-09
Mått156 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor260
Upplaga2005
FörlagSpringer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN9781402038327

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Introduction: Frugivory, Phenology, and Rainforest Conservation.- Do Frugivore Population Fluctuations Reflect Fruit Production? Evidence from Panama.- Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua Park, Colombia.- Floristics, Primary Productivity and Primate Diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a Eutrophic Várzea Forest and an Oligotrophic Caatinga Forest in Brazil.- A 12-Year Phenological Record of Fruiting: Implications for Frugivore Populations and Indicators of Climate Change.- An Intersite Comparison of Fruit Characteristics in Madagascar: Evidence for Selection Pressure Through Abiotic Constraints Rather Than Through Co-Evolution.- The Key to Madagascar Frugivores.- Fruiting Phenology and Pre-dispersal Seed Predation in a Rainforest in Southern Western Ghats, India.- Fast Foods of the Forest: The Influence of Figs on Primates and Hornbills Across Wallace’s Line.- The Frugivore Community and the Fruiting Plant Flora in a New Guinea Rainforest: Identifying Keystone Frugivores.- Diet, Keystone Resources and Altitudinal Movement of Dwarf Cassowaries in Relation to Fruiting Phenology in a Papua New Guinean Rainforest.- Keystone Fruit Resources and Australia’s Tropical Rain Forests.