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Frugivory and seed dispersal: ecological and evolutionary aspects: Advances in Vegetation Science, cartea 15

Editat de T. H. Fleming, Alejandro Estrada
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 2012
Any scientific discipline needs a theoretical framework to guide its development and to sharpen the questions its researchers pursue. In biology, evolution is the grand theoretical framework, and an his­ torical perspective is necessary to understand present-day biological conditions. In its formative years, the modern study of the fruit-frugivore mutualism was guided by the 'specialist-generalist' paradigm developed by D. Snow, D. McKey, and H. Howe. Howe reviews the current status of this evolution­ ary paradigm and points out that it has been dismissed by many workers before being adequately tested. This is because ecologists working with the tropical plants and frugivorous birds for which the paradigm was originally developed rarely measure the seed dispersal effectiveness of different disperser species. He indicates that this paradigm still has heuristic value and suggests that several additional ecological paradigms, including the concept ofkeystone species ofplants and frugivores and the role that frugivores play in density-dependent mortality in tropical trees, are worth studying. The concept of seed dispersal quality has been central to discussions of fruit-frugivore coevolution. Schupp thoroughly reviews data bearing on this concept, constructs a hierarchical framework for viewing disperser effectiveness, and points out that disperser effectiveness depends on both the quantity and quality of seed dispersal. Effectiveness, in turn, affects both evolutionary and ecological relationships between dispersers and their food plants.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789401047678
ISBN-10: 9401047677
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: XII, 392 p.
Dimensiuni: 195 x 260 x 21 mm
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Editura: SPRINGER NETHERLANDS
Colecția Springer
Seria Advances in Vegetation Science

Locul publicării:Dordrecht, Netherlands

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Specialized and generalized dispersal systems: where does ‘the paradigm’ stand?.- Quantity, quality and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals.- The population-dynamic functions of seed dispersal.- Consumption of fruits of the Melastomataceae by birds: how diffuse is coevolution?.- Speciation and coevolution: an interpretation of frugivory phenomena.- Geographical ecology and variation of plantseed disperser interactions: southern Spanish junipers and frugivorous thrushes.- Opportunism vs. specialization: the evolution of dispersal strategies in fleshy-fruited plants.- Consequences for seed distributions of intra-crob variation in wingloading of wind-dispersed species.- Evolutionary ecology of mast-seeding in temperate and tropical oaks (Quercus spp.).- Aspects of variation in a neotropical seed dispersal system.- Fruit size in a tropical tree species: variation, preference by birds, and heritability.- Spatial distribution of understory fruit-eating birds and fruiting plants in a neotropical lowland wet forest.- Weak interactions between avian and insect frugivores: the case of Pistacia terebinthus L. (Anacardiaceae).- Ecological and behavioral consequences of digestion in frugivorous animals.- The influence of seed packaging and fruit color on feeding preferences of American robins.- The influence of pulp lipids on fruit preference by birds.- Seed dispersal versus seed predation: an inter-site comparison of two related African monkeys.- Patterns of frugivore species richness and abundance in forest islands and in agricultural habitats at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.- Dispersal mode seed shadows, and colonization patterns.- The influence of seed dispersal mechanisms on the genetic structure of tropical tree populations.- Soto-Castro, Seed rain and advancedregeneration in a tropical rain forest.- Monitoring seed dispersal at isolated standing trees in tropical pastures: consequences for local species availability.- The role of seed dispersal in the natural regeneration of rain forest after strip-cutting in the Peruvian Amazon.- Spatial scale and dispersion pattern of ant- and bird-dispersed herbs in two tropical lowland rain forests.- Removal of seeds from frugivore defecations by ants in a Costa Rican rain forest.- Predation by vertebrates and invertebrates on the seeds of five canopy tree species of an Amazonian forest.