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Local bird traits match fruit traits of two alien plants in urban fruit-frugivore interactions

Ecología Austral, 2023
Bird-mediated seed dispersal enhances invasions of many alien plant species. Typically, this mutualism is composed of a generalist assemblage of frugivorous birds in which morphological trait matching between bird and plant species is often thought to ...
Facundo X. Palacio, Diego Montalti
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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, Stephen G. B. Chester, William A. Clemens, Jason R. Moore, Courtney J. Sprain, Brody T. Hovatter, William S. Mitchell, Wade W. Mans, Roland Mundil, Paul R. Renne   +9 more
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Frugivory and seed dispersal by vertebrates in tropical and subtropical Asia: An update

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2017
Seed dispersal is a key process in plant communities and frugivory is very important in vertebrate communities. This paper updates a review of frugivory and seed dispersal by vertebrates in the Oriental Region (tropical and subtropical Asia) published in
Richard T. Corlett
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Frugivory and potential of birds as dispersers of Siparuna guianensis [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2015
Siparuna guianensis is a neotropical tree species, found both on edge and interior of forest fragments, mainly on understory and regeneration areas. The fruit are zoochorous with a sweet aril. This work aims to determine the bird species that eat the fruits of S.
Gonçalves, VF., Silva, AM., Baesse, CQ., Melo, C.   +3 more
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Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Human attraction to alcohol may derive from an evolutionary association between ethanol and fruits consumed by animals in nature. Fermentative yeasts are widespread in the terrestrial biosphere, and simple carbohydrates underpinning ethanol production are commonplace within fruits.
Maro A, Sandel AA, Blaiore BZA, Wittig RM, Mitani JC, Dudley R.   +5 more
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Blue-and-yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna; Linnaeus, 1758) and its novel and major food, Terminalia catappa L. seeds, in an urban area in Central Brazil [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Blue-and-yellow Macaws in Três Lagoas City (State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) have utilized Terminalia catappa seeds increasingly, after rarely eating this resource fifteen years ago.
J. Ragusa-Netto
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Produção e predação de frutos em Aniba rosaeodora Ducke var. amazonica Ducke (Lauraceae) em sistema de plantio sob floresta de terra firme na Amazônia Central Harvesting and fruit predation of a Aniba rosaeodora Ducke var. amazonica Ducke (Lauraceae) ex situ tree population in a central Amazonian upland forest

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2004
O pau-rosa (Aniba rosaeodora) vem sendo usado desde o século passado para extração de linalol, produto usado como fixador de perfumes. Por causa do extrativismo houve redução drástica em suas populações naturais.
Wilson Roberto Spironello, Paulo de Tarso Barbosa Sampaio, Beatriz Ronchi-Teles   +2 more
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Padrões de interações mutualísticas entre espécies arbóreas e aves frugívoras em uma comunidade de Restinga no Parque Estadual de Itapuã, RS, Brasil Patterns of mutualistic interactions between tree species and frugivorous birds in a restinga community at Itapuã State Park, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2007
Padrões de interação entre aves frugívoras e espécies arbóreas, com suas variações sazonais, foram determinados em uma mata de Restinga. Foram feitas observações visuais e capturas da avifauna, ao longo de um ano, estimando-se a conectância do sistema ...
Adriano Scherer, Fabiana Maraschin-Silva, Luís Rios de Moura Baptista   +2 more
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Bite force estimates and morphological correlations of jaw muscles in parrots

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) are renowned for their high bite force (BF) and morphological correlates thereof, including a highly mobile skull and two unique mandibular adductor muscles—m. pseudomasseter and m. ethmomandibularis, with the former being hypothesized to increase force output.
Ana Carolina L. Faillace, Arin Berger, Marcelo Ismar S. Santana, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +3 more
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Latitudinal effect on the structure of snake–prey interaction networks is mediated by snake species richness

Ecography, EarlyView.
Despite the growing number of studies on trophic networks in recent decades, there are still important gaps in our understanding of how these networks are structured across broad environmental gradients. These gaps are even greater in some groups of terrestrial vertebrates, such as snakes, requiring a cohesive synthesis of their broader trophic ...
Daniela Pinto‐Coelho, Kate P. Maia, Laura R. V. Alencar, Marcio Martins, Paulo R. Guimarães   +4 more
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