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Fleming, Theodore H.,

The ornaments of life : coevolution and conservation in the tropics / Theodore H. Fleming and W. John Kress. - xii, 588 pages ; 23 cm. - Interspecific interactions . - Interspecific interactions. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Patterns of regional and community diversity -- The resource base -- Patterns of pollen and seed dispersal and their ecological and genetic consequences -- Macroevolutionary consequences of pollen and seed dispersal -- Phylogeny and biogeography of these mutualisms -- The pollination mutualism -- The frugivory mutualism -- Synthesis and conclusions about the ecology and evolution of angiosperm-vertebrate mutualisms -- The future of vertebrate-angiosperm mutualisms.

ISBN: 9780226253404 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226253411 (paperback : alkaline paper)

LCCN: 2013000803

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pollination by animals--Tropics.
Seed dispersal by animals--Tropics.
Angiosperms--Pollination--Tropics.
Vertebrates--Tropics.
Animal-plant relationships--Tropics.
Mutualism (Biology)--Tropics.
Coevolution--Tropics.
Conservation biology--Tropics.

LC Class. No.: QH549.5 / .F54 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 576.8/75