Tropical Fruits and Frugivores
Subtitle: The Search for Strong Interactors
Contributors: J. Lawrence Dew (Editor); Jean P. Boubli (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781402038327
Subjects: Plant ecology; Science/Mathematics; Nature; Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Plants - General; Nature / Plants; Animal-plant relationships; Congresses; Frugivores; Tropical fruit; Tropics
Description: 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.