Community aspects of frugivory in tropical forests

Abstract

Vertebrate-dispersed plants : why they don't behave the way they should / Carlos M. Herrera -- A seven-year study of individual variation in fruit production in tropical bird-dispersed tree species in the family Lauraceae / Nathaniel T. Wheelwright -- Spatial components of fruit display in understory trees and shrubs / Julie S. Denslow, Timothy C. Moermond and Douglas J. Levey -- Seed deposition patterns : influences of season, nutrients, and vegetation structure / Edmund W. Stiles and Douglas W. White -- Foliar 'flags' for avian frugivores : signal or serendipity? / Mary F. Willson and William G. Hoppes -- Dispersal of seeds by animals : effect on light-controlled dormancy in Cecropia obtusifolia / Carlos Vázquez-Yanes and Alma Orozco-Segovia -- Selection on plant fruiting traits by brown capuchin monkeys : a multivariate approach / Charles H. Janson, Edmund W. Stiles and Douglas W. White -- Frugivory in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico : dispersal and fate of seeds / Alejandro Estrada and Rosamond Coates-Estrada -- Opportunism versus specialization : the evolution of feeding strategies in frugivorous bats / Theodore H. Fleming -- Inter-relations between frugivorous vertebrates and pioneer plants : Cecropia, birds and bats in French Guyana / Pierre Charles-Dominique -- The influence of morphology on fruit choice in neotropical birds / Timothy C. Moermond, Julie S. Denslow, Douglas J. Levey and Eduardo Santana C. -- Methods of seed processing by birds and seed deposition patterns / Douglas J. Levey -- Some aspects of avian frugivory in a north temperate area relevant to tropical forest / David W. Snow and Barbara K. Snow -- Seed dispersal and environmental heterogeneity in a neotropical herb : a model of population and patch dynamics / Carol C. Horvitz and Douglas W. Schemske -- Consequences of seed dispersal for gap-dependent plants : relationships between seed shadows, germination requirements, and forest dynamic processes / K. Greg Murray -- Seed dispersal mutualism and the population density of Asarum canadense, an ant-dispersed plant / E. Raymond Heithaus -- The influence of seed dispersal mechanisms on the genetic structure of plant populations / J.L. Hamrick and M.D. Loveless -- Seed dispersal by birds and squirrels in the deciduous forests of the United States / Martin A. Stapanian -- Seed shadows, seed predation and the advantages of dispersal / Rodolfo Dirzo and César A. Domínguez -- Mice, big mammals, and seeds : it matters who defecates what where / Daniel H. Janzen -- Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant : Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals / Mario Gonzalez-Espinosa and Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio -- Agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata), the inheritors of guapinol (Hymenaea courbaril: Leguminosae) / W. Hallwachs -- Relationships between dispersal syndrome and characteristics of populations of trees in a subtropical forest / William J. Platt and Sharon M. Hermann -- Seed dispersal, gap colonization, and the case of Cecropia insignis / Nicholas V.L. Brokaw -- Seed dispersal, gap dynamics and tree recruitment : the case of Cecropia obtusifolia at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico / Miguel Martinez-Ramos and Elena Alvarez-Bullya -- Constraints on the timing of seed germination in a tropical forest / Nancy C. Garwood -- Dispersal and the sequential plant communities in Amazonian Peru floodplain / Robin B. Foster, Javier Arce B. and Tatzyana S. Wachter -- Community aspects of frugivory in tropical forests / John Terborgh.