Tasks for Vegetation Science

1: Plant strategies.- 1. Vertebrate-dispersed plants: why they don't behave the way they should.- 2. A seven-year study of individual variation in fruit production in tropical bird-dispersed tree species in the family Lauraceae.- 3.Spatial components of fruit display in understory trees and shrubs.- 4.Seed deposition patterns: influences of season, nutrients, and vegetation structure.- 5. Foliar 'flags' for avian frugivores: signal or serendipity?.- 6. Dispersal of seeds by animals: effect on lightcontrolled dormancy in Cecropia obtusifolia.- 2: Frugivore strategies.- 7. Selection on plant fruiting traits by brown capuchin monkeys: a multivariate approach.- 8. Frugivory in howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata) at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico: dispersal and fate of seeds.- 9. Opportunism versus specialization: the evolution of feeding strategies in frugivorous bats.- 10. Inter-relations between frugivorous vertebrates and pioneer plants: Cecropia, birds and bats in French Guyana.- 11. The influence of morphology on fruit choice in neotropical birds.- 12. Methods of seed processing by birds and seed deposition patterns.- 13. Some aspects of avian frugivory in a north temperate area relevant to tropical forest.- 3: The consequences of seed dispersal.- 14. Seed dispersal and environmental heterogeneity in a neotropical herb: a model of population and patch dynamics.- 15. Consequences of seed dispersal for gap-dependent plants: relationships between seed shadows, germination requirements, and forest dynamic processes.- 16. Seed dispersal mutualism and the population density of Asarum canadense, an ant-dispersed plant.- 17. The influence of seed dispersal mechanisms on the genetic structure of plant populations.- 18. Seed dispersal by birds and squirrels in the deciduous forests of the United States.- 19. Seed shadows, seed predation and the advantages of dispersal.- 20. Mice, big mammals, and seeds: it matters who defecates what where.- 21. Seed predation and dispersal in a dominant desert plant: Opuntia, ants, birds, and mammals.- 22. Agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata), the inheritors of guapinol (Hymenaea courbaril: Leguminosae).- 4: Community aspects of frugivory and seed dispersal.- 23. Relationships between dispersal syndrome and characteristics of populations of trees in a subtropical forest.- 24. Seed dispersal, gap colonization, and the case of Cecropia insignis.- 25. Seed dispersal, gap dynamics and tree recruitment: the case of Cecropia obtusifolia at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico.- 26. Constraints on the timing of seed germination in a tropical forest.- 27. Dispersal and the sequential plant communities in Amazonian Peru floodplain.- 28. Community aspects of frugivory in tropical forests.