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 |
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