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 +3 more
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Native fruit traits may mediate dispersal competition between native and non-native plants [PDF]
, 2012 Seed disperser preferences may mediate the impact of invasive, non-native plant species on their new ecological communities. Significant seed disperser preference for invasives over native species could facilitate the spread of the invasives while ...
Aslan, Clare, Rejmánek, Marcel
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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. +3 more
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Functional Redundancy and Complementarities of Seed Dispersal by the Last Neotropical Megafrugivores [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Functional redundancy has been debated largely in ecology and conservation, yet we lack detailed empirical studies on the roles of functionally similar species in ecosystem function.
Bueno, R. +6 more
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Frugivory and seed dispersal by the yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula), in a subtropical forest of China [PDF]
, 2008 The yellow-throated marten, Martes flavigula, is the only living species of the genus Martes found in subtropical and tropical forests (Harrison et al. 2004). It is distributed throughout central and southern Asia in a wide variety of habitats.
Newman, Chris +4 more
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Seed rain into upland plant communities in Hong Kong, China [PDF]
, 2006 Hong Kong is an extreme example of tropical landscape degradation, with no substantial remnants of the original forest cover and a highly impoverished disperser fauna.
Au, AYY, Corlett, RT, Hau, BCH
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Effect of polymorphic colour vision for fruit detection in the spider monkey Ateles geoffroyi, and its implications for the maintenance of polymorphic colour vision in platyrrhine monkeys [PDF]
, 2004 Most platyrrhine monkeys have an X-linked tri-allelic polymorphism for medium and long wavelength (M/L) sensitive cone photopigments. These pigments' sensitivity maxima (λmax) range from 535 to 562 nm.
Osorio, Daniel +2 more
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The comparative biology of ethanol consumption: An introduction to the symposium [PDF]
, 2004 In classical Greek, the word “symposium” signifies a drinking party held for the purposes of intellectual discussion. This symposium introduces a new evolutionary perspective on an ancient question: why are many animals, including humans, attracted to ...
Dickinson, Michael, Dudley, Robert
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Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Plesiadapiform mammals, as stem primates, are key to understanding the evolutionary and ecological origins of Pan-Primates and Euarchonta. The Purgatoriidae, as the geologically oldest and most primitive known plesiadapiforms and one of the oldest known ...
Gregory P. Wilson Mantilla +9 more
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Invasive ants disrupt frugivory by endemic island birds [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2009 Biological invasions can alter direct and indirect interactions between species, generating far-reaching changes in ecological networks that affect key ecological functions. We used model and real fruit assays to show that the invasion and formation of high-density supercolonies by the yellow crazy ant (YCA), Anoplolepis ...
Davis, Naomi E. +3 more
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