Growing recognition of the importance of long-distance dispersal (LDD) of plant seeds for
various ecological and evolutionary processes has led to an upsurge of research into the …

Discussion of successional change has traditionally focused on plants. The role of animals
in producing and responding to successional change has received far less attention …

There is broad consensus that the diversity of functional traits within species assemblages
drives several ecological processes. It is also widely recognized that rare species are the …

Dispersal is fundamental to ecological processes at all scales and levels of organization, but
progress is limited by a lack of information about the general shape and form of plant …

Frugivores are highly variable in their contribution to fruit removal in plant populations.
However, data are lacking on species-specific variation in two central aspects of seed …

Background Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to
paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals> 103 kg), yet these dispersers were …

Dispersal is a key individual‐based process influencing many life‐history attributes and
scaling up to population‐level properties (eg metapopulation connectivity). A persistent …

1. We investigated the relationships of seed size, dispersal mode and other species
characteristics to interspecific variation in mean primary seed dispersal distances, mean …

Pleistocene extinctions affected mainly large‐bodied animals, determining the loss or
changes in numerous ecological functions. Evidence points to a central role of many extinct …

This advanced textbook is the first to explore the consequences of plant dispersal for
population and community dynamics, spatial patterns, and evolution. It successfully …