Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Frugivores and Frugivory -- 1 Seed Allometry and Disperser Assemblages in Tropical Rainforests: A Comparison of Four Floras on Different Continents -- 2 Evolutionary Ecology of Secondary Compounds in Ripe Fruit: Case Studies with Capsaicin and Emodin -- 3 The Evolution of Visual Fruit Signals: Concepts and Constraints -- 4 A Review on the Role of Endozoochory in Seed Germination -- 5 Living in the Land of Ghosts: Fruit Traits and the Importance of Large Mammals as Seed Dispersers in the Pantanal, Brazil -- 6 The Importance of Lizards as Frugivores and Seed Dispersers -- 7 Fleshy-fruited Plants and Frugivores in Desert Ecosystems -- 8 Ecological Redundancy in Seed Dispersal Systems: A Comparison Between Manakins (Aves: Pipridae) in Two Tropical Forests -- PART II: Seed and Seedling Shadows -- 9 Estimating Dispersal Kernels Produced by a Diverse Community of Vertebrates -- 10 Frugivores, Seeds and Genes: Analysing the Key Elements of Seed Shadows -- 11 Total Dispersal Kernels and the Evaluation of Diversity and Similarity in Complex Dispersal Systems -- 12 How Far Do Offspring Recruit from Parent Plants? A Molecular Approach to Understanding Effective Dispersal -- 13 Using Toucan-generated Dispersal Models to Estimate Seed Dispersal in Amazonian Ecuador -- 14 Linking Seed and Seedling Shadows: A Case Study in the Oaks (Quercus) -- 15 Estimates of the Number of Seeds Dispersed by a Population of Primates in a Lowland Forest in Western Amazonia -- PART III: Seed Fate and Establishment -- 16 Plant-Frugivore Interactions as Spatially Explicit Networks: Integrating Frugivore Foraging with Fruiting Plant Spatial Patterns -- 17 An Empirical Approach to Analysing the Demographic Consequences of Seed Dispersal by Frugivores.

18 How Seed Dispersal Affects Interactions with Specialized Natural Enemies and their Contribution to the Maintenance of Diversity -- 19 Out of One Shadow and into Another: Causes and Consequences of Spatially Contagious Seed Dispersal by Frugivores -- 20 The Suitability of a Site for Seed Dispersal is Context-dependent -- 21 Mycorrhizal Plants and Vertebrate Seed and Spore Dispersal: Incorporating Mycorrhizas into the Seed Dispersal Paradigm -- 22 The Influence of Seed Source, Habitat and Fungi on Cecropia Seed Survival in Two Neotropical Forests -- 23 Determinants of Tree Species Distributions: Comparing the Roles of Dispersal, Seed Size and Soil Specialization in a Bornean Rainforest -- PART IV: Management Implications and Conservation -- 24 Pollination or Seed Dispersal: Which Should we Worry About Most? -- 25 Do Seed Dispersers Matter? A Biogeographical Approach -- 26 Investigating Fragility in Plant-Frugivore Networks: A Case Study of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil -- 27 Refining the Conservation Management of Seed-dispersing Frugivores and Their Fruits: Examples from Australia -- 28 Seed Dispersal in Anthropogenic Landscapes -- 29 Frugivory by Birds in Degraded Areas of Brazil -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- Glossary of Terms Used in Studies of Seed Dispersal -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.