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

Plants (Basel), 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.
Hernández-Brito D, Romero-Vidal P, Hiraldo F, Blanco G, Díaz-Luque JA, Barbosa JM, Symes CT, White TH, Pacífico EC, Sebastián-González E, Carrete M, Tella JL.   +11 more
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Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant-animal mutualism. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2021
Santana SE, Kaliszewska ZA, Leiser-Miller LB, Lauterbur ME, Arbour JH, Dávalos LM, Riffell JA.   +6 more
europepmc   +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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Mutualism and Antagonism in a Post-Extinction Hawaiian Bird-Lobelioid Pollination System. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Extinction of specialized pollinators can alter the balance between mutualism and antagonism in plant–animal interactions, yet the mechanistic consequences of partner loss remain poorly resolved. We examined plant–bird interactions among three endangered
Case SB, Drake DR, Epperly K, Steinbronn C, Kanakaokai K, Hagemann ME, Kingsley NH, Gregory SB, Mounce HL, Rico-Guevara A.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Frugivore richness poorly predicts seed dispersal effectiveness under climate change. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Animal-mediated seed dispersal underpins forest maintenance, yet climate change threatens this mutualism by reshaping plant-frugivore overlap. Most projections assume that frugivore richness and binary interactions adequately capture seed dispersal ...
Rigacci EDB, Silva WR, Boom MP, Kissling WD.   +3 more
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Integrated Vegetative and Reproductive Traits Reveal Functional Groups and Assembly Mechanisms in a Subtropical Forest Ecotone. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
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 ...
Xu C, Jiang L, Zhu J, We X, Liu J, Xu D, Zhang Z, Guo X, He Z.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Genetic tools for transformation of Xyleborus ambrosia beetle fungal symbionts. [PDF]

Fungal Biol Biotechnol
Background Ambrosia beetles rely on obligate fungal partners for survival, and these associations are emerging as model systems for examining the development and evolution of fungal-animal mutualism.
Joseph RA, Masoudi A, Keyhani NO.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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