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Epizoochory in Parrots as an Overlooked Yet Widespread Plant–Animal Mutualism [PDF]

Plants, 2021
Plant–animal interactions are key to sustaining whole communities and ecosystem function. However, their complexity may limit our understanding of the underlying mechanisms and the species involved.
Dailos Hernández-Brito, Pedro Romero-Vidal, Fernando Hiraldo, Guillermo Blanco, José A. Díaz-Luque, Jomar M. Barbosa, Craig T. Symes, Thomas H. White, Erica C. Pacífico, Esther Sebastián-González, Martina Carrete, José L. Tella   +11 more
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Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant-animal mutualism. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2021
Despite the widespread notion that animal-mediated seed dispersal led to the evolution of fruit traits that attract mutualistic frugivores, the dispersal syndrome hypothesis remains controversial, particularly for complex traits such as fruit scent. Here, we test this hypothesis in a community of mutualistic, ecologically important neotropical bats ...
Santana SE, Kaliszewska ZA, Leiser-Miller LB, Lauterbur ME, Arbour JH, Dávalos LM, Riffell JA.   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Integrated Vegetative and Reproductive Traits Reveal Functional Groups and Assembly Mechanisms in a Subtropical Forest Ecotone [PDF]

Plants
In species-rich forests, the integration of vegetative and reproductive traits defines plant ecological strategies and underpins community assembly. How these trait syndromes assemble into functional groups to facilitate species coexistence in ecotones ...
Chenxing Xu, Lan Jiang, Jing Zhu, Xin We, Jinfu Liu, Daowei Xu, Zhaopeng Zhang, Xiangyi Guo, Zhongsheng He   +8 more
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Plant-animal mutualism effectiveness in native and transformed habitats: Assessing the coupled outcomes of pollination and seed dispersal

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 2017
Most flowering plants depend on biotic pollination and seed dispersal for successful reproduction. Pollination and seed dispersal are diffuse mutualistic interactions, in which many species with different effectiveness levels participate. However, anthropogenic habitat disturbance may hamper the impact of mutualists, jeopardizing plant recruitment ...
Francisco E Fontúrbel, Pedro Jordano, Rodrigo G Medel   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

High incidence of plant-animal mutualisms in the woody flora of the temperate forest of southern South America: biogeographical origin and present ecological significance

Ecología Austral, 1998
The flora of the temperate forest of southern South America highly depends on animals for pollination and seed dispersal. This resembles more tropical settings and distinguishes it from other temperate floras.
Marcelo A. Aizen, Cecilia Ezcurra
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Consecuencias de la ruptura de mutualismos planta-animal para la distribución de especies vegetales en las Islas Baleares Consequences of the disruption of plant-animal mutualisms for the distribution of plant species in the Balearic Islands

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2002
Una modificación del hábitat como puede ser la introducción de especies animales exóticas que desplazan a las nativas, reduciendo sus poblaciones o conduciéndolas a la extinción, puede resultar en la ruptura de interacciones entre especies, las cuales ...
ANN TRAVESET
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Predation risk can modify the foraging behaviour of frugivorous carnivores: Implications of rewilding apex predators for plant–animal mutualisms [PDF]

Journal of Animal Ecology, 2022
Abstract Apex predators play key roles in food webs and their recovery can trigger trophic cascades in some ecosystems. Intra‐guild competition can reduce the abundances of smaller predators and perceived predation risk can alter their foraging behaviour thereby limiting seed dispersal by frugivorous carnivores.
Tamara Burgos, Jose M. Fedriani, Gema Escribano‐Ávila, Javier Seoane, Javier Hernández‐Hernández, Emilio Virgós   +5 more
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Frugivore Population Biomass, but Not Density, Affect Seed Dispersal Interactions in a Hyper-Diverse Frugivory Network

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Mutualistic interactions are regulated by plant and animal traits, including animal body size and population density. In seed dispersal networks, frugivore body size determines the interaction outcome, and species population density determines ...
Luísa Genes, Gianalberto Losapio, Gianalberto Losapio, Camila I. Donatti, Camila I. Donatti, Paulo R. Guimarães, Rodolfo Dirzo, Rodolfo Dirzo   +7 more
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Invasive mutualists erode native pollination webs. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2008
Plant-animal mutualisms are characterized by weak or asymmetric mutual dependences between interacting species, a feature that could increase community stability.
Marcelo A Aizen, Carolina L Morales, Juan M Morales   +2 more
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Functional consequences of plant‐animal interactions along the mutualism‐antagonism gradient [PDF]

Ecology, 2017
AbstractPlant‐animal interactions are pivotal for ecosystem functioning, and usually form complex networks involving multiple species of mutualists as well as antagonists. The costs and benefits of these interactions show a strong context‐dependency directly related to individual variation in partner identity and differential strength.
Rodríguez-Rodríguez, María C., Jordano, Pedro, Valido, Alfredo   +2 more
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