Plant-animal interactions in Mediterranean-type ecosystems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Historical introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Aristotle and Theophrastus on plant-animal interactions

      • Costas A. Thanos

      Pages 3-11

3. Community structure

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Species richness of vascular plants and vertebrates in relation to canopy productivity

      • Raymond L. Specht

      Pages 15-24

   3. Summergreenness, evergreenness and life history variation in Mediterranean Blue Tits

      • Jacques Blondel, Paula Cristina Dias

      Pages 25-36

   4. Community structure and species richness in the Mediterranean-type soil fauna

      • A. Legakis

      Pages 37-45

   5. Bird diversity within and among Australian heathlands

      • Martin L. Cody

      Pages 47-61

   6. Plant community structure in southwestern Australia and aspects of herbivory, seed dispersal and pollination

      • David T. Bell

      Pages 63-70

4. Triangular relationships

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Resource webs in Mediterranean-type climates

      • H. A. Mooney, R. J. Hobbs

      Pages 73-81

   3. Triangular trophic relationships in Mediterranean-climate Western Australia

      • Byron B. Lamont

      Pages 83-89

5. Herbivory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Has intensive grazing by domestic livestock degraded Mediterranean Basin rangelands?

      • No’Am G. Seligman, Avi Perevolotsky

      Pages 93-103

   3. Resource availability and herbivory in Larrea tridentata

      • Philip W. Rundel, M. Rasoul Sharifi, Azucena Gonzalez-Coloma

      Pages 105-114

   4. Effects of insect herbivory on plant architecture

      • Rosanna Ginocchio, Gloria Montenegro

      Pages 115-122

6. Pollination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. Pollination syndromes in the Mediterranean: generalizations and peculiarities

      • Amots Dafni, Christopher O’Toole

      Pages 125-135

   3. Red flowers and butterfly pollination in the fynbos of South Africa

      • S. D. Johnson, W. J. Bond

      Pages 137-148

7. Seed dispersal

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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The Sixth International Conference on Mediterranean Climate ecosystems was held at Maleme (Crete), Greece, from September 23 to September 27, 1991. This conference had as its theme 'Plant-Animal Interactions in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems'. Most of the papers presented to that meeting have already been published (see Thanos, C.A. ed., 1992, Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems, Athens, 389 pp.). These 57 papers were all necessarily short. But the theme of plant-animal interactions was considered by the Organizing Committee to be so important to a fundamental understanding of the ecology of Mediterranean-climate ecosystems and to an enhanced management ·of those systems that various international research scientists were invited to prepare longer contributions on major aspects of the overall theme. The Book that follows represents the result of those invitations. All five regions of Mediterranean climate are represented - Chile, California, southern Australia and the Cape Province of South Africa, as well as the Mediterranean Basin itself.

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• ecology
• ecosystem
• fauna
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