Dispersal costs can be classified into energetic, time, risk and opportunity costs and may be
levied directly or deferred during departure, transfer and settlement. They may equally be …

Growth in seed dispersal studies has been fast‐paced since the seed disperser
effectiveness (SDE) framework was developed 17 yr ago. Thus, the time is ripe to revisit the …

Abstract Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura)(Diptera: Drosophilidae) is a pest of small fruits and
cherries, and has also been noted to infest a variety of wild, ornamental, and uncultivated …

Summary 1 Large‐seeded species have long been known to have higher survivorship
during establishment than small‐seeded species. Here, we assessed the size of this …

M ast seeding is the inter-mittent production of large seed crops by a population of plants. It
is also sometimes called mass seeding, mass fruiting, periodic flowering, supra-annual …

The pulp of fleshy fruits, with the soft, edible, nutritive tissues surrounding the seeds, is a
primary food resource for many frugivorous animals, notably mammals and birds, but also …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

▪ Abstract For many years biologists have debated whether mast seeding (the synchronous
intermittent production of large seed crops in perennial plants) results from weather …

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …

After a millenarian history of overexploitation, most forests in the Mediterranean Basin have
disappeared, leaving many degraded landscapes that have been recolonized by early …