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Tropical Fruits and Frugivores

The Search for Strong Interactors

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. J. Lawrence Dew

    1. University of California, Berkeley, USA

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  2. Jean Philippe Boubli

    1. Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, USA

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  • Comparing ecologies and conservation of plants and animals in rainforests with regard to keystone plant taxa of particular importance in sustaining a diversity of animal life, particularly in tropical forests

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Frugivory, Phenology, and Rainforest Conservation

    • J. Lawrence Dew
    Pages 1-4

  3. Do Frugivore Population Fluctuations Reflect Fruit Production? Evidence from Panama

    • Katharine Milton, Jacalyn Giacalone, S. Joseph Wright, Gretchen Stockmayer
    Pages 5-35

  4. Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua Park, Colombia

    • Pablo Stevenson
    Pages 37-57

  5. Floristics, Primary Productivity and Primate Diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a Eutrophic Várzea Forest and an Oligotrophic Caatinga Forest in Brazil

    • Jean Philippe Boubli
    Pages 59-73

  6. A 12-Year Phenological Record of Fruiting: Implications for Frugivore Populations and Indicators of Climate Change

    • Colin A. Chapman, Lauren J. Chapman, Amy E. Zanne, John R. Poulsen, Connie J. Clark
    Pages 75-92

  7. An Intersite Comparison of Fruit Characteristics in Madagascar: Evidence for Selection Pressure Through Abiotic Constraints Rather Than Through Co-Evolution

    • An Bollen, Giuseppe Donati, Joanna Fietz, Dorothea Schwab, Jean-Baptiste Ramanamanjato, Laurent Randrihasipara et al.
    Pages 93-119

  8. The Key to Madagascar Frugivores

    • Patricia C. Wright, Vololontiana R. Razafindratsita, Sharon T. Pochron, Jukka Jernvall
    Pages 121-138

  9. Fruiting Phenology and Pre-dispersal Seed Predation in a Rainforest in Southern Western Ghats, India

    • T. Ganesh, Priya Davidar
    Pages 139-154

  10. Fast Foods of the Forest: The Influence of Figs on Primates and Hornbills Across Wallace’s Line

    • Margaret F. Kinnaird, Timothy G. O’brien
    Pages 155-184

  11. The Frugivore Community and the Fruiting Plant Flora in a New Guinea Rainforest: Identifying Keystone Frugivores

    • Andrew L. Mack, Debra D. Wright
    Pages 185-203

  12. Diet, Keystone Resources and Altitudinal Movement of Dwarf Cassowaries in Relation to Fruiting Phenology in a Papua New Guinean Rainforest

    • Debra D. Wright
    Pages 205-236

  13. Keystone Fruit Resources and Australia’s Tropical Rain Forests

    • David A. Westcott, Matt G. Bradford, Andrew J. Dennis, Geoff Lipsett-Moore
    Pages 237-260
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Berkeley, USA

    J. Lawrence Dew

  • Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, USA

    Jean Philippe Boubli

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