The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics

The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics /

The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As this book reveals, many of the most colourful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants are an important component of the infrastructure that supports life in the forest.

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Main Authors: Fleming, Theodore H. (Author), Kress, W. John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013
Series:Interspecific interactions.
Subjects:
Pollination by animals > Tropics.
Seed dispersal by animals > Tropics.
Angiosperms > Pollination > Tropics.
Vertebrates > Tropics.
Animal-plant relationships > Tropics.
Mutualism (Biology) > Tropics.
Coevolution > Tropics.
Conservation biology > Tropics.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Patterns of regional and community diversity
  • The resource base
  • Patterns of pollen and seed dispersal and their ecological and genetic consequences
  • Macroevolutionary consequences of pollen and seed dispersal
  • Phylogeny and biogeography of these mutualisms
  • The pollination mutualism
  • The frugivory mutualism
  • Synthesis and conclusions about the ecology and evolution of angiosperm-vertebrate mutualisms
  • The future of vertebrate-angiosperm mutualisms.

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