Seed fate : predation, dispersal, and seedling establishment / edited by Pierre-Michel Forget ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Symposium on "Post-Primary Seed Fate: Predation and Secondary Dispersal", Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Forget, Pierre-Michel.

Conference Name:

Symposium on "Post-Primary Seed Fate: Predation and Secondary Dispersal" (2002 : Panama, Panama)

Symposium on "Post-Primary Seed Fate: Predation and Secondary Dispersal"

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seeds--Congresses.

Seeds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Seed Fate Pathways: Filling the Gap between Parent and Offspring; 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 Distributions6 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?; 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 Rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia10 Myrmecochorous Seed Dispersal in Temperate Regions; 11 Scatterhoarding in Mediterranean Shrublands of the SW 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 Ability15 Influence of Forest Composition on Tree Seed Predation and Rodent Responses: a Comparison of 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; 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 Rainforests21 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; Index

Notes:

Some papers were presented at the Symposium on "Post-Primary Seed Fate: Predation and Secondary Dispersal" held in Panama City, Panama, 29 July-2 August, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-86632-2

9786610866328

0-85199-072-X

OCLC:

437182364