Format:
1 online resource (XV, 410 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9780851990729
Series Statement:
CABI Books
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- 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 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? -- 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 Malaysia -- 10 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 Ability -- 15 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780851998060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Seed fate Wallingford, Oxfordshire [u.a.] : CABI Publ., 2005 ISBN 0851998062
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Saatgut
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Samen
;
Samenverbreitung
;
Samenpflanzen
;
Populationsdynamik
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Fruktivoren
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1079/9780851998060.0000
