The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics /
Fleming, Theodore H.,author.
Kress, W. John,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [507]-580) and index.
The scope of this book -- Patterns of regional and community diversity -- The resource base -- Pollen and seed dispersal and their ecological and genetic consequences -- Macroevolutionary consequences of pollen and seed dispersal -- Phylogeny and biogeography of these mutualisms -- The pollination mutualism -- The frugivory mutualism -- Synthesis and conclusions about the ecology and evolution of angiosperm-vertebrate mutualisms -- The future of vertebrate-angiosperm mutualisms -- Appendix 1. Overview of the major families of bird and mammal pollinators and seed dispersers -- Appendix 2. Overview of the major families of plants containing species that are pollinated or dispersed by birds or mammals.
Pollination by animals
Seed dispersal by animals
Angiosperms
Vertebrates
Animal-plant relationships
Mutualism (Biology)
Coevolution
Conservation biology