Seed Fate
Predation, Dispersal and Seedling Establishment
Published on 20. December 2004
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-85199-806-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents current knowledge of seed fate in both natural and human-disturbed landscapes, from various regions of the world. Habitats considered range from mountain and arid deserts in the temperate zone, to savanna and lowland rainforests in tropical regions of the world. Particular attention is paid to plant diversity conservation when seed removal is affected by factors such as hunting, habitat fragmentation or intensive logging. Contributors include leading scientists involved in research on seed ecology and on animal-plant relationships from the perspective of both primary and secondary seed dispersal, and predation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1070 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-806-0 (9780851998060)
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Content
1: Seed Fate Pathways: Filling the Gap between Parent and Offspring I: Seed predation 2: Seed Predator Guilds, Spatial Variation in Post-Dispersal Seed Predation and Potential Effects on Plant Demography - a Temperate Perspective 3: The Fate of Seed Banks: Factors influencing Seed Survival for Light-Demanding Species in Moist Tropical Forests 4: Frugivore-Mediated Interactions Among Bruchid Beetles and Palm Fruits at Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Implications for Seed Fate 5: Patterns of Seed Predation by Vertebrate versus Invertebrate Seed Predators among Different Plant Species, Seasons and Spatial Distributions 6: Seed Predation and Dispersal by Peccaries throughout the Neotropics and its Consequences: A Review and Synthesis 7: Seed Predation, Seed Dispersal and Habitat Fragmentation: Does Context Make a Difference in Tropical Australia? II: Primary Seed dispersal 8: The Fate of Primate Dispersed Seeds: Deposition Pattern, Dispersal Distance, and Implications for Conservation 9: Fallen Fruits and Terrestrial Vertebrate Frugivores: A Case Study in a Lowland Tropical Rain Forest in Peninsular Malaysia 10: Myrmecochorous Seed Dispersal in Temperate Regions 11: Scatterhoarding in Mediterranean Shrublands of the S.W. Cape, South Africa 12: Selection, Predation and Dispersal of Seeds by Tree Squirrels in Temperate and Boreal Forests: Are Tree Squirrels Keystone Granivores? 13: Jays, Mice and Oaks: Predation and Dispersal of Quercus robur and Q. petraea in North-Western Europe 14: Walnut Seed Dispersal: Mixed Effects of Tree Squirrels and Field Mice with Different Hoarding Ability 15: Effects of Large Seeds on Rodent Populations and the Recruitment of Large-Seeded Trees in Monodominant and Mixed Temperate Forests in Japan 16: Impact of Small Rodents on Tree Seeds in Temperate and Subtropical Forests, China 17: Rodent Scatterhoarders As Conditional Mutualists IV: Secondary seed dispersal 18: Diplochory and the evolution of seed dispersal 19: Ants as Seed Dispersers of Fleshy Diaspores in Brazilian Atlantic Forests 20: The Role of Dung Beetles as Secondary Seed Dispersers and their Effect on Plant Regeneration in Tropical Rainforests 21: Post-Dispersal Seed Fate of Some Cloud Forest Tree Species in Costa Rica 22: Observing Seed Removal: Remote Video Monitoring of Seed Selection, Predation and Dispersal 23: How to Elucidate Seed Fate? A Review of Methods Used to Study Seed Removal and Secondary Seed Dispersal