Historical introduction.- 1. Aristotle and Theophrastus on plant-animal interactions.- Community structure.- 2. Species richness of vascular plants and vertebrates in relation to canopy productivity.- 3. Summergreenness, evergreenness and life history variation in Mediterranean Blue Tits.- 4. Community structure and species richness in the Mediterranean-type soil fauna.- 5. Bird diversity within and among Australian heathlands.- 6. Plant community structure in southwestern Australia and aspects of herbivory, seed dispersal and pollination.- Triangular relationships.- 7. Resource webs in Mediterranean-type climates.- 8. Triangular trophic relationships in Mediterranean-climate Western Australia.- Herbivory.- 9. Has intensive grazing by domestic livestock degraded Mediterranean Basin rangelands?.- 10. Resource availability and herbivory in Larrea tridentata.- 11. Effects of insect herbivory on plant architecture.- Pollination.- 12. Pollination syndromes in the Mediterranean: generalizations and peculiarities.- 13. Red flowers and butterfly pollination in the fynbos of South Africa.- Seed dispersal.- 14. Modes of dispersal of seeds in the Cape fynbos.- 15. Why are there so many myrmecochorous species in the Cape fynbos?.- Index of key words.- Author index.- Systematic index.
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