Frugivory and seed dispersal: ecological and evolutionary aspects
Any scientific discipline needs a theoretical framework to guide its development and to sharpen the questions its researchers pursue. In biology, evolution is the grand theoretical framework, and an his torical perspective is necessary to understand present-day biological conditions. In its formati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1993, 1993
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1993 |
| Series: | Advances in Vegetation Science
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Table of Contents:
- Spatial distribution of understory fruit-eating birds and fruiting plants in a neotropical lowland wet forest
- Weak interactions between avian and insect frugivores: the case of Pistacia terebinthus L. (Anacardiaceae)
- Ecological and behavioral consequences of digestion in frugivorous animals
- The influence of seed packaging and fruit color on feeding preferences of American robins
- The influence of pulp lipids on fruit preference by birds
- Seed dispersal versus seed predation: an inter-site comparison of two related African monkeys
- Patterns of frugivore species richness and abundance in forest islands and in agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
- Dispersal mode seed shadows, and colonization patterns
- The influence of seed dispersal mechanisms on the genetic structure of tropical tree populations
- Soto-Castro, Seed rain and advancedregeneration in a tropical rain forest
- Specialized and generalized dispersal systems: where does ‘the paradigm’ stand?
- Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals
- The population-dynamic functions of seed dispersal
- Consumption of fruits of the Melastomataceae by birds: how diffuse is coevolution?
- Speciation and coevolution: an interpretation of frugivory phenomena
- Geographical ecology and variation of plantseed disperser interactions: southern Spanish junipers and frugivorous thrushes
- Opportunism vs. specialization: the evolution of dispersal strategies in fleshy-fruited plants
- Consequences for seed distributions of intra-crob variation in wingloading of wind-dispersed species
- Evolutionary ecology of mast-seeding in temperate and tropical oaks (Quercus spp.)
- Aspects of variation in a neotropical seed dispersal system
- Fruit size in a tropical tree species: variation, preference by birds, and heritability
- Monitoring seed dispersal at isolated standing trees in tropical pastures: consequences for local species availability
- The role of seed dispersal in the natural regeneration of rain forest after strip-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon
- Spatial scale and dispersion pattern of ant- and bird-dispersed herbs in two tropical lowland rain forests
- Removal of seeds from frugivore defecations by ants in a Costa Rican rain forest
- Predation by vertebrates and invertebrates on the seeds of five canopy tree species of an Amazonian forest