The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics / Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fleming, Theodore H. (Author)
Kress, W. John (Author)
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.
Physical Description:xii, 588 pages, 13 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
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.