TY - BOOK AU - Dew,J.Lawrence AU - Boubli,Jean Philippe ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactors SN - 9781402038334 AV - QK900-989 U1 - 581.7 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Netherlands KW - Life sciences KW - Ecology KW - Animal ecology KW - Ecosystems KW - Plant ecology KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Life Sciences KW - Plant Ecology KW - Life Sciences, general KW - Animal Ecology KW - Evolutionary Biology KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Introduction: Frugivory, Phenology, and Rainforest Conservation -- Do Frugivore Population Fluctuations Reflect Fruit Production? Evidence from Panama -- Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua Park, Colombia -- Floristics, Primary Productivity and Primate Diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a Eutrophic Várzea Forest and an Oligotrophic Caatinga Forest in Brazil -- A 12-Year Phenological Record of Fruiting: Implications for Frugivore Populations and Indicators of Climate Change -- An Intersite Comparison of Fruit Characteristics in Madagascar: Evidence for Selection Pressure Through Abiotic Constraints Rather Than Through Co-Evolution -- The Key to Madagascar Frugivores -- Fruiting Phenology and Pre-dispersal Seed Predation in a Rainforest in Southern Western Ghats, India -- Fast Foods of the Forest: The Influence of Figs on Primates and Hornbills Across Wallace’s Line -- The Frugivore Community and the Fruiting Plant Flora in a New Guinea Rainforest: Identifying Keystone Frugivores -- Diet, Keystone Resources and Altitudinal Movement of Dwarf Cassowaries in Relation to Fruiting Phenology in a Papua New Guinean Rainforest -- Keystone Fruit Resources and Australia’s Tropical Rain Forests N2 - 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 UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3833-X ER -