Table of Contents:
  • The scope of this book
  • Patterns of regional and community diversity
  • The resource base
  • 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
  • Appendix 1. Overview of the major families of bird and mammal pollinators and seed dispersers
  • Appendix 2. Overview of the major families of plants containing species that are pollinated or dispersed by birds or mammals.