Tropical Fruits and Frugivores The Search for Strong Interactors

In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents. In total, 12 primary contributors, including noted plant and

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Tropical Fruits and Frugivores The Search for Strong Interactors

Edited by

J. LAWRENCE DEW University of California, Berkeley, CA U.S.A. and

JEAN PHILIPPE BOUBLI Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, U.S.A.

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-4020-3832-1 (HB) 978-1-4020-3832-7 (HB) 1-4020-3833-X ( e-book) 978-1-4020-3833-4 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springeronline.com Christian Ziegler is kindly acknowledged for supplying the cover photograph

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Contents

Preface

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Introduction: Frugivory, Phenology, and Rainforest Conservation J. LAWRENCE DEW

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Do Frugivore Population Fluctuations Reflect Fruit Production? Evidence from Panama 5 KATHARINE MILTON, JACALYN GIACALONE, S. JOSEPH WRIGHT, GRETCHEN STOCKMAYER Potential Keystone Plant Species for the Frugivore Community at Tinigua 37 Park, Colombia PABLO STEVENSON Floristics, Primary Productivity and Primate Diversity in Amazonia: Contrasting a Eutrophic Várzea Forest and an Oligotrophic Caatinga Forest in Brazil 59 JEAN PHILIPPE BOUBLI A 12-Year Phenological Record of Fruiting: Implications for Frugivore Populations and Indicators of Climate Change 75 COLIN A. CHAPMAN, LAUREN J. CHAPMAN, AMY E. ZANNE, JOHN R. POULSEN, CONNIE J. CLARK v

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An Intersite Comparison of Fruit Characteristics in Madagascar: Evidence for Selection Pressure through Abiotic Constraints Rather Than through Co-evolution 93 AN BOLLEN, GIUSEPPE DONATI, JOANNA FIETZ, DOROTHEA SCHWAB, JEAN-BAPTISTE RAMANAMANJATO, LAURENT RANDRIHASIPARA, LINDA VAN ELSACKER, JÖRG GANZHORN The Key to Madagascar Frugivores PATRICIA C. WRIGHT, VOLOLONTIANA R. RAZAFINDRATSITA, SHARON T. POCHRON, JUKKA JERNVALL

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Fruiting Phenology and Pre-dispersal Seed Predation in a Rainforest in Southern Western Ghats, India 139 T. GANESH, PRIYA DAVIDAR Fast Foods of the Forest: The Influence of Figs on Primates and Hornbills across Wallace's Line 155 MARGARET F. KINNAIRD, TIMOTHY G. O'BRIEN The Frugivore Community and the Fruiting Plant Flora in a New Guinea Rainforest: Identifying Keystone Frugivores 185 ANDREW L. MACK, DEBRA D. WRIGHT Diet, Keystone Resources, and Altitudinal Movement of Dwarf Cassowaries in Relation to Fruiting Phenology in a Papua New Guinean Rainforest 205 DEBRA D. WRIGHT Keystone Fruit Resources and Australia’s Tropical Rain Forests 237 DAVID A. WESTCOTT, MATT G. BRADFORD, ANDREW J. DENNIS, GEOFF LIPSETT-MOORE

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