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Seasonal and Interspecific Variation in Frugivory by a Mixed Resident-Migrant Overwintering Songbird Community

Diversity, 2021
Many temperate passerine bird species switch from diets of mostly invertebrates in the spring and summer to diets that include fruit and seeds in the fall and winter.
Wales A. Carter, Scott F. Pearson, Adam D. Smith, Scott R. McWilliams, Douglas J. Levey   +4 more
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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, Riba-Hernández, Pablo, Stoner, Kathryn E   +2 more
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Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms [PDF]

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017
Animal-mediated seed dispersal by frugivorous birds and mammals is central to the ecology and functioning of ecosystems, but whether and how frugivory-related traits have affected plant speciation remains little explored. Fruit size is directly linked to plant dispersal capacity and therefore influences gene flow and genetic divergence of plant ...
Onstein, Renske, Baker, William, Couvreur, Thomas, Faurby, Søren, Svenning, Jens-Christian, Kissling, W. Daniel   +5 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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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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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
europepmc   +3 more sources

Preliminary investigation of flexibility in learning color-reward associations in gibbons (Hylobatidae) [PDF]

, 2015
Previous studies in learning set formation have shown that most animal species can learn to learn with subsequent novel presentations being solved in fewer presentations than when they first encounter a task.
Abordo, Barton, Barton, Barton, Boinski, Brockman, Caine, Clutton-Brock, Cunningham, Cunningham, Cunningham, Curran, Deegan, Fedor, Forbes, Garber, Garson, Gossette, Groves, Harlow, Hemingway, Horton, Jacobs, Jacobs, Lucas, MacArthur, Mootnick, Nagle, Osorio, Overdorff, Passingham, Regan, Regan, Riley, Rumbaugh, Stephens, Tomasello, Van Schaik   +37 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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Modeling the Ecological and Phenological Predictors of Fruit Consumption by Gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) [PDF]

, 2014
Understanding the ecological interactions between plant reproductive strategies and frugivore feeding behavior can offer insight into the maintenance of tropical forest biodiversity.
Beaudrot, Lydia, Clink, Dena J., Dillis, Christopher, Feilen, Katie L., Marshall, Andrew J., Wittmer, Heiko U.   +5 more
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