Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison

By Brian Drayton. 2005

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Future habitat loss and the conservation of plant biodiversity (2010, background): “Not only do plants produce resources that support non-plant biodiversity (Huston, 1994; Primack and Corlett, 2005), they also provide food and materials essential for human existence (Kier et al.”
The global distribution of frugivory in birds (2009, background): “…fruited plants (Snow, 1981; Gentry, 1982; Fleming et al ., 1987; Harrison, 2005), the presence or absence of mammalian competitors (Fleming et al ., 1987; Primack & Corlett, 2005) or the past climate history and the geographical position of dispersal barriers (Fleming et al ., 1987; Newton, 2003).”
Vertical stratification influences global patterns of biodiversity (2018, background): “…has been shown to play an important role in determining localized biogeographic patterns of species richness, suggesting that vertical stratification of species within forest canopies enable greater species coexistence (MacArthur and MacArthur 1961, Corlett and Primack 2011, Scheffers et al.”