Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong InteractorsJ. Lawrence Dew, Jean P. Boubli 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. In total, 12 primary contributors, including noted plant and animal ecologists, present newly-analyzed long-term datasets on the floristics and phenological rhythms of their study sites, identifying important seed dispersers and key plant taxa that sustain animal communities in Africa, Madagascar, Australasia, and the Neotropics. |
Contents
Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua | 37 |
Implications for Frugivore | 75 |
Evidence | 93 |
The Key to Madagascar Frugivores 121 | 120 |
Fruiting Phenology and Predispersal Seed Predation in a Rainforest | 139 |
The Influence of Figs on Primates and Hornbills | 155 |
The Frugivore Community and the Fruiting Plant Flora in a New Guinea | 185 |
Diet Keystone Resources and Altitudinal Movement of Dwarf Cassowaries | 205 |
Keystone Fruit Resources and Australias Tropical Rain Forests | 237 |
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Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactors J. Lawrence Dew,Jean P. Boubli No preview available - 2009 |
Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactors J. Lawrence Dew,Jean P. Boubli No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
animals Astrocaryum chambira average biomass Biotropica birds Boubli canopy Chapman Cheirogaleus Columbidae consumed correlation crop density diversity droppings Ecology ecosystem estimates Eulemur fulvus feeding Ficus Figure fleshy fruits frugivore community frugivore populations frugivore species frugivores fruit abundance fruit availability fruit resources fruit scarcity fruit species fruiting patterns Ganzhorn Gautier-Hion genera Guinea Gustavia hornbill howler monkeys important individuals interactions keystone plant keystone resources keystone species Kibale Kinnaird Lauraceae lean season Leighton lemur species lemurs macaques Madagascar Mamirauá mammal species meal mass medius Meliaceae Milton monthly months Moraceae National Park Neotropical O'Brien Oenocarpus bataua Peres periods of fruit phenology Pico da Neblina plant species plots Primatology proportion rain forest rainfall Ranomafana Ranomafana National Park relatively ripe fruit sample scarcity periods Schaik seed dispersal seed predation sifakas species richness squirrels study area Sulawesi Sumatra Terborgh Tinigua transects tree species tropical forests unripe vertebrates Wright