Workshop: Floristics, Phenology, and Frugivore Communities: A Pan-Tropical Comparison (Panama City, Panama; July 29 - August 2, 2002)

并得到了维护。在地球上最多样化的栖息地中，热带雨林、灵长类动物和其他食果动物(食果者)通过传播许多树木的种子发挥着重要作用。在这次研讨会中，我们将对热带食果动物和植物群落进行全球比较。我们将首次将研究鸟类、蝙蝠、灵长类动物、大象和其他动物的研究人员与植物生态学家聚集在一起，识别和比较在不同地区维持动物多样性的“基石”植物物种。通过聚集一些世界上最优秀的热带生物学家来比较他们的知识，这次研讨会将试图创建一种工具，快速识别最重要的物种，以维持生物多样性。我们还将研究这些物种的丧失对生态系统的影响。研讨会有三个目的：第一，确定和比较维持热带雨林动物多样性的关键植物；第二，确定对这些植物群落最重要的动物；第三，研究这些相互作用对保护的重要性。本次论坛收集的信息将推动生态学领域的发展，并有助于濒危物种和栖息地的科学管理。它还将把学生和该领域的知名学者聚集在一起，并就保护战略建立国际合作。

and maintained. In the most diverse habitats on Earth, the tropical rainforests, primates and other frugivores (fruit-eaters) play important roles by dispersing the seeds of many trees. In this symposium we will make a global comparison of tropical frugivores and plant communities. We will bring together for the first time researchers studying birds, bats, primates, elephants, and other animals with plant ecologists to identify and compare the "keystone" plant species that sustain a diversity of animals in different regions. By bringing together some of the world's finest tropical biologists to compare their knowledge, this symposium will try to create a tool for rapidly identifying the most important species for maintaining biodiversity. We will also study the ways that the loss of such species can affect ecosystems.There are three aims of the symposium: first, to identify and compare the key plants which sustain rainforest animal diversity; second, to identify those animals which are of greatest significance to these plant communities; and third, to study the importance of these interactions to conservation. The information collected in this forum will advance the field of ecology and aid the scientific management of endangered species and habitats. It will also bring students together with renowned scholars in the field, and build international collaboration on conservation strategies.