Pollination
virtually all forest plants are outcrossing
and only a few canopy spp. use wind
widely-separated plants need good flyers
that home reliably to type
a wide array of animal pollinators is used
e.g. in the Neotropical Realm,
nearly 600 spp. of plant are known to be
intimately involved with bats
many relationships are obligate mutualisms
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