Refining the Conservation Management of Seed-dispersing Frugivores and their Fruits: Examples from Australia

摘要

Research on frugivory and seed dispersal has expanded rapidly over the past couple of decades. So have vegetation loss (e.g. Vesk and MacNally, 2006), the invasion of exotic plants and animals into natural and semi-natural habitats (e.g. Low, 2001), altered fire regimes (e.g. Edwards and Russell-Smith, 2006) and other threats to biodiversity, plus the more recent beginnings of climate change (Hilbert et al., 2001). It is thus timely to explore the application of research into frugivores and seed dispersal to conservation management in such a rapidly changing world.