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Ecological significance of fruit displays in Myrtaceae: relationship between fruit colour, maturation stage, attractiveness and seed germination

Oikos, EarlyView.
Fruit colour has long fascinated scientists and is widely considered an evolutionary adaptation to attract both avian and mammalian frugivores. While fleshy fruits play a key role in plant–animal interactions by promoting seed dispersal, the functional significance of colour variation, particularly multicoloured displays during ripening, remains poorly
Hercília Freitas da Cunha, Eduardo Luiz Voigt, Eliana Cazetta, Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier   +3 more
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Trait‐associated pathway links plant diversity to litterfall phenology in a seasonally dry tropical forest

Oikos, EarlyView.
Phenology plays a central role in regulating energy flow and nutrient cycling, yet remains insufficiently integrated into biodiversity–ecosystem functioning frameworks. This gap is especially relevant in strongly seasonal systems, where community‐wide synchrony in leaf litterfall may arise from either temporal niche differentiation among species or ...
Ana E. Bonato Asato, Otávio Sena, José L. A. Silva, Gabriel H. S. Silva, Mery I. G. de Alencar, Eduardo Arlé, Bruno T. Goto, Anderson da R. Gripp, Jorge G. F. Genovez, Rodrigo L. Martins, Nico Eisenhauer, André Y. S. P. Belo, Adriano S. Mota, Alexandre F. Souza, Adriano Caliman   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Floristic survey of the Mata do Junco Wildlife Refuge, Capela, Sergipe State, Brazil

Hoehnea
Seeking to expand the floristic studies for the Atlantic rainforest, we herein present, based on field trips (January 2011 to April 2013) and herbarium records, a list of vascular plants found in the Mata do Junco Wildlife Refuge, State of Sergipe ...
Eduardo Vinícius da Silva Oliveira, Leuciane Andrade Gomes, Rainan Matos Déda, Larissa Michelle Santos Melo, Ana Cecília da Cruz Silva, Marta Cristina Vieira Farias, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata   +6 more
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Abundance of soaring raptors in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

, 2003
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Manosa, Santi, Mateos, Eduardo, Pedrocchi, Vittorio   +2 more
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Ant communities (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in an urban ecosystem near the Atlantic Rainforest [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2007
The relationships between an urban ecosystem located near the Atlantic Rainforest in southeastern Brazil and ant communities were studied with the objective of quantifying the ant richness and abundance in the household environment and its surroundings.
Kamura, CM., Morini, MSC., Figueiredo, CJ., Bueno, OC., Campos-Farinha, AEC.   +4 more
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Brazil seed transfer zones: Supporting seed sourcing for climate‐resilient ecosystem restoration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil has tens of millions of hectares of degraded land that must be restored to meet national and global biodiversity and climate goals. Sowing genetically diverse native seeds is key to restoring degraded lands to climate‐resilient landscapes, but we still lack guidance on how to effectively match seed sources to restoration sites across broad ...
Mateus Silva, André Braga Junqueira, Pedro Guimarães, Danielle Celentano, Beatriz Murer, Tobias Fremout, Evert Thomas, Christopher Kettle, Edjane Damasceno, Adler Medeiros, Rodrigo Dutra‐Silva, Fabian Borghetti, Fatima Piña‐Rodrigues, Anabele Gomes, Veronica Maioli, R. Toby Pennington, Lucy Rowland, Eduardo Malta   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fungal Endophyte Communities in Begonia Species from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest [PDF]

Current Microbiology, 2017
Tropical plants represent hotspots of endophytic fungal species diversity. Based on culture-dependent methods, we evaluated the endophytic fungal communities in leaves of three plant species found in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest: Begonia fischeri, Begonia olsoniae, and Begonia venosa.
Ana M. L. Correia, Simone P. Lira, Marco A. Assis, Andre Rodrigues   +3 more
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Complex multitrophic species interactions and fitness costs: Intricate consequences of jasmonate and salicylate induced plant defences

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study reveals how long‐term activation of jasmonic and salicylic acid signalling reshapes arthropod communities and plant fitness across seasons. By showing that induced defences generate contrasting outcomes and cascading trade‐offs across trophic levels, it challenges the assumption that induced resistance is uniformly beneficial in natural ...
Mônica F. Kersch‐Becker, Guilherme P. Pinheiro, Thaís S. Schweller, Martin Pareja, Victoria M. Pocius, José R. Trigo, Gustavo Q. Romero   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diet and endoparasites of the lizard Gymnodactylus darwinii (Gekkota, Phyllodactylidae) from an Atlantic Rainforest area in southeastern Brazil [PDF]

Biotemas, 2012
In this study we provide information on diet and endoparasites of individuals of the species Gymnodactylus darwinii in an Atlantic Rainforest area in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mauricio Almeida-Gomes, Davor Vrcibradic, Thiago Maia-Carneiro, Carlos Frederico D. Rocha   +3 more
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Feeding and reproductive patterns of Astyanax intermedius in a headwater stream of Atlantic Rainforest [PDF]

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015
ABSTRACT In this paper, we determined diet composition, reproductive periodicity and fecundity of Astyanax intermedius in a headwater stream of a State Park of an Atlantic rainforest. We also evaluated the influence of rainfall, water temperature and fish size on niche width and niche overlap.
Souza, Ursulla P., Ferreira, Fabio C., Carmo, Michele A. F., Braga, Francisco M. S.   +3 more
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