Figs and the Diversity of Tropical Rainforests

By Rhett D. Harrison. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Predicting the Long‐Term Effects of Hunting on Plant Species Composition and Diversity in Tropical Forests (2007, background): “The clear exception would be changes in availability of keystone fruit and seed species that are themselves the limiting food source (Harrison 2005).”
Dispersal of fig pollinators in Asian tropical rain forests (2006, background): “This uniquely intricate interaction is over 60 million y old (Ronsted et al. 2005), and the fact that Ficus is usually the most diverse plant genus in any particular rain forest attests to its success (Harrison 2005).”
Reconstructing the phylogeny of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) to reveal the history of the fig pollination mutualism (2008, background): “Ficus is one of the most diverse plant genera in regard to growth habit, with both deciduous and evergreen free-standing trees, small shrubs, creepers, climbers, stranglers, rheophytes and lithophytes (Harrison, 2005).”
Differentiation of leaf water flux and drought tolerance traits in hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species (2010, background): “Hemiepiphytism evolved at least four times in this genus (Harrison 2005) and currently, Ficus consists of about 500 hemiepiphytic and 300 non-hemiepiphytic species (Berg &Corner 2005).”
The global distribution of frugivory in birds (2009, background): “tion of fleshy fruited plants (Snow, 1981; Gentry, 1982; Fleming et al ., 1987; Harrison, 2005), the presence or absence of mammalian competitors (Fleming et al .”
Speciation in fig wasps (2010, background): “Ficus is the only genus to appear in the top three tree genera in long-term study plots of lowland rainforest on all tropical continents (Harrison, 2005).”