"Most of the chapters in this book are derived from presentations given at the Fourth International Symposium/Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal held in Brisbane, Australia, in 2005"--Pref.

The chapters of this book on seed dispersal are divided into four parts: (1) frugivores and frugivory (8 chapters); (2) seed and seedling shadows (7 chapters); (3) seed fate and establishment (eight chapters); and (4) management implications and conservation (six chapters). The book presents both recent advances and reviews of current knowledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frugivores and Frugivory / A. J. Dennis -- Seed Allometry and Disperser Assemblages in Tropical Rainforests : A Comparison of Four Floras on Different Continents / P.-M. Forget, A.J. Dennis, S.J. Mazer, P.A. Jansen, S. Kitamura, J.E. Lambert and D.A. Westcott -- Evolutionary Ecology of Secondary Compounds in Ripe Fruit : Case Studies with Capsaicin and Emodin / D.J. Levey, J.J. Tewksbury, I. Izhaki, E. Tsahar and D.C. Haak -- The Evolution of Visual Fruit Signals : Concepts and Constraints / H.M. Schaefer and V. Schaefer -- A Review on the Role of Endozoochory in Seed Germination / A. Traveset, A.W. Robertson and J. Rodríguez-Pérez -- Living in the Land of Ghosts : Fruit Traits and the Importance of Large Mammals as Seed Dispersers in the Pantanal, Brazil / C.I. Donatti, M. Galetti, M.A. Pizo, P.R. Guimarães Jr and P. Jordano -- The Importance of Lizards as Frugivores and Seed Dispersers / A. Valido and J.M. Olesen -- Fleshy-fruited Plants and Frugivores in Desert Ecosystems / J.L. Bronstein, I. Izhaki, R. Nathan, J.J. Tewksbury, O. Spiegel, A. Lotan and O. Altstein -- Ecological Redundancy in Seed Dispersal Systems : A Comparison Between Manakins (Aves : Pipridae) in Two Tropical Forests / B.A. Loiselle, P.G. Blendinger, J.G. Blake and T.B. Ryder -- Seed and Seedling Shadows / D.A. Westcott -- Estimating Dispersal Kernels Produced by a Diverse Community of Vertebrates / A.J. Dennis and D.A. Westcott -- Frugivores, Seeds and Genes : Analysing the Key Elements of Seed Shadows / P. Jordano -- Total Dispersal Kernels and the Evaluation of Diversity and Similarity in Complex Dispersal Systems / R. Nathan -- How Far Do Offspring Recruit from Parent Plants? A Molecular Approach to Understanding Effective Dispersal / B.D. Hardesty -- Using Toucan-generated Dispersal Models to Estimate Seed Dispersal in Amazonian Ecuador / K.M. Holbrook and B.A. Loiselle -- Linking Seed and Seedling Shadows : A Case Study in the Oaks (Quercus) / M.A. Steele, J.E. Carlson, P.D. Smallwood, A.B. McEuen, T.A. Contreras and W.B. Terzaghi -- Estimates of the Number of Seeds Dispersed by a Population of Primates in a Lowland Forest in Western Amazonia / P.R. Stevenson -- Plant-Frugivore Interactions as Spatially Explicit Networks : Integrating Frugivore Foraging with Fruiting Plant Spatial Patterns / T.A. Carlo, J.E. Aukema and J.M. Morales -- An Empirical Approach to Analysing the Demographic Consequences of Seed Dispersal by Frugivores / H. Godínez-Alvarez and P. Jordano -- How Seed Dispersal Affects Interactions with Specialized Natural Enemies and their Contribution to the Maintenance of Diversity / H.C. Muller-Landau and F.R. Adler -- Out of One Shadow and into Another : Causes and Consequences of Spatially Contagious Seed Dispersal by Frugivores / C. Kwit, D.J. Levey, S.A. Turner, C.J. Clark and J.R. Poulsen -- The Suitability of a Site for Seed Dispersal is Context-dependent / E.W. Schupp -- Mycorrhizal Plants and Vertebrate Seed and Spore Dispersal: Incorporating Mycorrhizas into the Seed Dispersal Paradigm / T.C. Theimer and C.A. Gehring -- The Influence of Seed Source, Habitat and Fungi on Cecropia Seed Survival in Two Neotropical Forests / R.E. Gallery, J.W. Dalling, B.T. Wolfe and A.E. Arnold -- Determinants of Tree Species Distributions : Comparing the Roles of Dispersal, Seed Size and Soil Specialization in a Bornean Rainforest / S.E. Russo, M.D. Potts, S.J. Davies and S. Tan -- Management Implications and Conservation / R.J. Green and A.J. Dennis -- Pollination or Seed Dispersal : Which Should we Worry About Most? / R.T. Corlett -- Do Seed Dispersers Matter? A Biogeographical Approach / K. Böhning-Gaese -- Investigating Fragility in Plant-Frugivore Networks : A Case Study of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil / W.R. Silva, P.R. Guimarães Jr, S.F. dos Reis and P. Guimarães -- Refining the Conservation Management of Seed-dispersing Frugivores and Their Fruits : Examples from Australia / R.J. Green -- Seed Dispersal in Anthropogenic Landscapes / S.J. Wright -- Frugivory by Birds in Degraded Areas of Brazil / M.A. Pizo.

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