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Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Tropical Rain Forests
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This article is published in Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 703 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests & Rainforest.read more
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Plant invasions--the role of mutualisms.
TL;DR: The view that tightly coevolved, plant‐vertebrate seed dispersal systems are extremely rare is supported and perspectives on mutualisms in screening protocols will improve the ability to predict whether a given plant species could invade a particular habitat.
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Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size.
TL;DR: Whether body size predicts foraging distance is determined and the equations presented can be used to predict foraging distances for many bee species, based on a simple measurement of body size.
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Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity
Jordi Bascompte,Pedro Jordano +1 more
TL;DR: The mutually beneficial interactions between plants and their animal pollinators and seed dispersers have been paramount in the generation of Earth's biodiversity and understanding how coevolution proceeds in these highly diversified mutualisms among free-living species presents a conceptual challenge.
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Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change.
Claire Kremen,Neal M. Williams,Marcelo A. Aizen,Barbara Gemmill-Herren,Gretchen LeBuhn,Robert L. Minckley,Laurence Packer,Simon G. Potts,T'ai H. Roulston,Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,Diego P. Vázquez,Rachael Winfree,Laurie Adams,Elizabeth E. Crone,Sarah S. Greenleaf,Timothy H. Keitt,Alexandra-Maria Klein,James Regetz,Taylor H. Ricketts +18 more
TL;DR: A conceptual model for exploring how one mobile-agent-based ecosystem service (MABES), pollination, is affected by land-use change, and then generalize the model to other MABES is developed.
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Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence
TL;DR: Infrequent competition among suppressed understory plants, niche differences, and Janzen-Connell effects may facilitate the coexistence of the many rare plant species found in tropical forests while negative density dependence regulates the few most successful and abundant species.
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Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems
Robert M. May,N. MacDonald +1 more
TL;DR: Preface vii Preface to the Second Edition Biology Edition 1.
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Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests
TL;DR: Any event that increases the efficiency of the predators at eating seeds and seedlings of a given tree species may lead to a reduction in population density of the adults of that species and/or to increased distance between new adults and their parents.
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Ecological determinants of genetic structure in plant populations
M. D. Loveless,J. L. Hamrick +1 more
TL;DR: This work limits the definition of genetic structure to the nonrandom distribution of alleles or genotypes in space or time and disregard genome organization and meiotic processes that can also affect allele and genotype frequencies.
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Comparative Phenological Studies of Trees in Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in the Lowlands of Costa Rica
TL;DR: The results of a comparative phenological investigation of the trees in Wet and Dry forest sites in lowland Costa Rica are reported here to provide a unified analysis of the leafing, flowering, and fruiting periodicities of most species at both sites.