Seed Dispersal and Frugivory

Colour Plates......Page 2
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
1 Maintenance of Tree Diversity in Tropical Forests......Page 20
2 Dissemination Limitation and the Origin and Maintenance of Species-rich Tropical Forests......Page 38
3 Assessing Recruitment Limitation: Concepts, Methods and Case-studies from a Tropical Forest......Page 54
4 Have Frugivores Influenced the Evolution of Fruit Traits in New Zealand?......Page 74
5 Mechanistic Models for Tree Seed Dispersal by Wind in Dense Forests and Open Landscapes......Page 88
6 The Role of Vertebrates in the Diversification of New World Mistletoes......Page 102
7 Mistletoes as Parasites and Seed-dispersing Birds as Disease Vectors: Current Understanding, Challenges and Opportunities......Page 118
8 Secondary Metabolites of Ripe Fleshy Fruits: Ecology and Phylogeny in the Genus Solanum......Page 130
9 The Seed-dispersers and Fruit Syndromes of Myrtaceaein the Brazilian Atlantic Forest......Page 148
10 Are Plant Species that Need Gaps for Recruitment More Attractive to Seed-dispersing Birds and Ants than Other Species?......Page 164
11 The Role of Fruit Traits in Determining Fruit Removal in East Mediterranean Ecosystems......Page 180
12 Seed Dispersal of Mimetic Fruits: Parasitism, Mutualism, Aposematism or Exaptation?......Page 196
13 Secondary Dispersal of Jeffrey Pine Seeds by Rodent Scatter-hoarders: the Roles of Pilfering, Recaching and a Variable Environment......Page 212
14 The Role of Seed Size in Dispersal by a Scatter-hoarding Rodent......Page 228
15 Mast Seeding and Predator-mediated Indirect Interactions in a Forest Community: Evidence from Post-dispersal Fate of Rodent-generated Caches......Page 246
16 Seasonality of Fruiting and Food Hoarding by Rodents in Neotropical Forests: Consequences for Seed Dispersal and Seedling Recruitment......Page 260
17 Seed-eaters: Seed Dispersal, Destruction and Demography......Page 276
18 Plant–Animal Coevolution: Is it Thwarted by Spatial and Temporal Variation in Animal Foraging?......Page 294
19 The Frugivorous Diet of the Maned Wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus, in Brazil: Ecology and Conservation......Page 310
20 Frugivore-generated Seed Shadows: a Landscape View of Demographic and Genetic Effects......Page 324
21 Contributions of Seed Dispersal and Demography to Recruitment Limitation in a Costa Rican Cloud Forest......Page 342
22 A Meta-analysis of the Effect of Gut Treatment on Seed Germination......Page 358
23 Effectiveness of Seed Dispersal by Cercopithecus Monkeys: Implications for Seed Input into Degraded Areas......Page 370
24 Exploring the Link between Animal Frugivory and Plant Strategies: the Case of Primate Fruit Processing and Post-dispersal Seed Fate......Page 384
25 Extinct Pigeons and Declining Bat Populations: Are Large Seeds Still being Dispersed in the Tropical Pacific?......Page 400
26 Potential Consequences of Extinction of Frugivorous Birds for Shrubs of a Tropical Wet Forest......Page 416
27 Primate Frugivory in Two Species-rich Neotropical Forests: Implications for the Demography of Large-seeded Plants in Overhunted Areas......Page 426
28 Patterns of Fruit–Frugivore Interactions in Two Atlantic Forest Bird Communities of South-eastern Brazil: Implications for Conservation......Page 442
29 Limitations of Animal Seed Dispersal for Enhancing Forest Succession on Degraded Lands......Page 456
30 Frugivory and Seed Dispersal in Degraded Tropical East Asian Landscapes......Page 470
31 Behavioural and Ecological Considerations for Managing Bird Damage to Cultivated Fruit......Page 486
32 Harvest and Management of Forest Fruits by Humans: Implications for Fruit–Frugivore Interactions......Page 498
Index......Page 514