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Non‐Native Rodents Dominate Understory Frugivory in the Eastern Caribbean Islands

Ecology and Evolution
Biotic invasions represent one of the leading environmental threats, with non‐native mammals being particularly damaging to native biodiversity on oceanic islands.
Seokmin Kim, Fabio L. Tarazona‐Tubens, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Fernando Gonçalves, Emmeli Agerskov Claré, Andreas Krogh Norrild, Hanna Welzel, Tianying Zhang, Mark Hulme, Christopher Kaiser‐Bunbury, Mauro Galetti, Benno Simmons, Bo Dalsgaard, Christopher Searcy   +13 more
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In a Neotropical Periurban Park, Fruit Consumption by Birds Seems to Be a Random Process

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Frugivory interactions between birds and fruit-bearing plants are shaped by the abundance of its interacting species, their temporal overlap, the matching of their morphologies, as well as fruit and seed characteristics.
Issaac Azrrael Teodosio-Faustino, Issaac Azrrael Teodosio-Faustino, Edgar Chávez-González, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza   +3 more
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Frugivory by the black-eared opossum Didelphis aurita in the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil: Roles of sex, season and sympatric species [PDF]

Biotemas, 2009
Our objective in this study was to examine the frugivory performed by the black-eared opossum, Didelphis aurita Wied-Neuwied, 1826, in an area of the coastal Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil, including differences between sexes, seasonal variation ...
Nilton C. Cáceres, Lucineia Z. Prates, Ivo R. Ghizoni-Junior, Maurício E. Graipel   +3 more
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Neglected seed dispersers and research compartmentalisation: how much do we know about what we don't know? [PDF]

New Phytol
Geographic distribution of seed dispersal studies by disperser guild. Summary Seed dispersal is critical for long‐term ecosystem resilience. However, excessive compartmentalisation of research into particular disperser guilds (e.g. birds) hampers our understanding of their relative contributions to overall seed dispersal, risking erroneous conclusions ...
Mendes SB, Sebastián-González E, Auffret AG, Castañeda I, Green AJ, van Leeuwen CHA, Baltzinger C, Lovas-Kiss Á, Donoso I, Soares R, Heleno R.   +10 more
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The ecological footprint of Acca sellowiana domestication maintains the residual vertebrate diversity in threatened highlands of Atlantic Forest. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Past and contemporary human actions are causing numerous changes in patterns and processes at various ecosystem scales and trophic levels, including unintended downstream changes, such as species interactions. In its native range Acca sellowiana (Feijoa)
Juliano André Bogoni, Maurício Eduardo Graipel, Nivaldo Peroni   +2 more
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An edible fruit from the Jurassic of China

China Geology, 2020
: Frugivory is an important ecological tie between animals and angiosperms. It plays an important role in the evolution of food webs and energy flow networks in the ecosystem. However, little is known about how old this relationship can be due to lack of
Li-jun Chen, Ye-mao Hou, Peng-fei Yin, Xin Wang   +3 more
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Frugivory by a stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]

Neotropical Entomology, 2010
Frugivory is not frequent among bees. Although stingless bees visit aged fruits for pulp, the use of fresh fruits is recorded only for Trigona hypogea Silvestri, a species that does not visit flowers. Here we report the occurrence of frugivory in Trigona amazonensis (Ducke), a flower-visiting stingless bee.
Peruquetti, Rui C, Costa, Luena da S M da, Silva, Valdirene S da, Drumond, Patrícia M   +3 more
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Frugivory underpins the nitrogen cycle [PDF]

Functional Ecology, 2020
Abstract Tropical rainforests are populated by large frugivores that feed upon fruit‐producing woody species, yet their role in regulating the cycle of globally important biogeochemical elements such as nitrogen is still unknown. This is particularly relevant because tropical forests play a prominent role in the nitrogen cycle and are becoming ...
Nacho Villar, Claudia Paz, Valesca Zipparro, Sergio Nazareth, Leticia Bulascoschi, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Mauro Galetti   +6 more
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Frugivory and seed dispersal by chelonians: A review and synthesis [PDF]

Biological Reviews, 2018
Abstract In recent years, it has become clear that frugivory and seed dispersal (FSD) by turtles and tortoises is much more common than previously thought. Yet, a review and synthesis is lacking. We here review published and unpublished records of chelonian FSD, and assess the role of chelonians as seed dispersers, from individual ...
Wilfredo Falcón, Don Moll, Dennis M. Hansen   +2 more
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CONSTRAINTS ON FRUGIVORY BY BEARS

Ecology, 1997
Bears consuming wild fruits for fall energy accumulation are constrained by several factors, including intake rate, the physiological capacity of the gastrointestinal tract, and the metabolic efficiency of gain in body mass. We measured these relationships through foraging and feeding trials using captive and wild black bears (Ursus americanus) and ...
Welch, Christy A., Keay, Jeffrey, Kendall, Katherine C., Robbins, Charles T.   +3 more
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