By D J Levey, W R Silva, M Galetti
ISBN-10: 085199525X
ISBN-13: 9780851995250
Till lately, the creation of end result via vegetation, their intake through animals (frugivory) and the relevance of those to seed dispersal have attracted much less consciousness than themes akin to pollination biology. even though, because the Seventies they've got began to achieve extra prominence and now provide upward thrust to extra study investment, seminal papers and foreign symposiums. This e-book comprises chapters tailored from the 3rd overseas Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal held in August 2000 in Rio Quente, Brazil.
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Exactly what the deterministic forces are that bring about the large-scale patterning of tropical tree communities remains to be elucidated, but we can hardly doubt that the structure of the animal community is an important component of the puzzle. g. seed predation) control which seeds among the hundreds that fall in a given microsite survive and prosper. None of the existing theories of plant diversity incorporates this kind of scale-dependent complexity. Our analysis of tree distribution at the landscape scale comes to a very different conclusion from Gentry’s (1988).
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