Fig Trees and Humans : Ficus Ecology and Mutualisms across Cultures

s and figs form hybrid communities within the context of anthropogenic landscapes, supported by biocultural mutualisms driven by traits of Ficusspecies and people's imagination and practices, and where humans also positively influence Ficus species ecology. Fig Trees and Humans; examines the interactions between the biology and ecology of the genus Ficusand how humans use and think of Ficus; species across the tropics and in the Mediterranean region. It demonstrates a high level of convergence of material and symbolic uses of human-fig interactions that affect various aspects of human culture, as well as the ecology of wild or cultivated Ficusspecies. [Publisher's text].

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