| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : Frugivory, phenology, and rainforest conservation / J.L. Dew -- Do frugivore population fluctuations reflect fruit production? : evidence from Panama / Katharine Milton [and others] -- Potential keystone plant species for the frugivore community at Tinigua Park, Colombia / Pablo Stevenson -- Floristics, primary productivity and primate diversity in Amazonia : contrasting a eutrophic várzea forest and an oligotrophic caatinga forest in Brazil / Jean Philippe Boubli -- A 12-year phenological record of fruiting : implications for frugivore populations and indicators of climate change / Colin A. Chapman [and others] -- An intersite comparison of fruit characteristics in Madagascar : evidence for selection pressure through abiotic constraints rather than through co-evolution / An Bollen [and others] -- The key to Madagascar frugivores / Patricia C. Wright [and others] -- Fruiting phenology and pre-dispersal seed predation in a rainforest in southern Western Ghats, India / T. Ganesh, Priya Davidar -- Fast foods of the forest : the influence of figs on primates and hornbills across Wallace's Line / Margaret F. Kinnaird, Timothy G. O'Brien -- The frugivore community and the fruiting plant flora in a New Guinea rainforest : identifying keystone frugivores / Andrew L. Mack, Debra D. Wright -- Diet, keystone resources, and altitudinal movement of dwarf cassowaries in relation to fruiting phenology in a Papua New Guinea rainforest / Debra D. Wright -- Keystone fruit resources and Australia's tropical rain forests / David A. Westcott [and others] |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Animal-plant relationships -- Tropics -- Congresses
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Frugivores -- Tropics -- Congresses
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Tropical fruit -- Congresses
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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Biomédecine.
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Sciences de la vie.
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Animal-plant relationships
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Frugivores
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Tropical fruit
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Tropics
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dew, J. Lawrence
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Boubli, Jean Philippe
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| LC no. |
2006401460 |
| ISBN |
9781402038334 |
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140203833X |
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1402038321 |
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9781402038327 |
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1280427116 |
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9781280427114 |
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9786610427116 |
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6610427119 |
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