This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31071929,31240470);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KSCX2-EW-N-05).
By tracking the fate of individual seeds from 6 frugivore-dispersed plants with contrasting seed traits in a fragmented subtropical forest in Southwest China,we explored how rodent seed predation and hoarding were in...
In savanna vegetation, trees and their canopies provide an important, but scattered habitat. Seeds of plants growing under these nurse trees often are dispersed by animals, especially birds. In the present study, we i...
Aims The use of exotic species as taxon substitutes to restore lost ecological interactions is currently hotly debated.Aldabrachelys gigantea giant tortoises have recently been introduced to three islands in the Masca...
financed by the Cooperation Research Program of KUPRI;the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, the 21st Century COE Program;Global COE Program "Formation of a Strategic Base for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Research: from Genome to Ecosystem"
Fruiting phenology, assessed by seed fall, in five warm- and cool-temperate forests on Yakushima Island, southern Japan, was studied for two years in one 50 m × 50 m plot and for four years in four 100 m ×50 m plots...
This study and the preparation of the paper were supported by the UMR 7179 CNRS-MNHN and by the Zoological Society of London.
During a mast-fruiting event we investigated spatial variability in fruit availability,consumption,and seed removal at two sympatric tree species,Manilkara bidentata and M.huberi(Sapotaceae)at Nouragues Natural Reserv...
This work was supported by a King Mongkut’s Univer-sity of Technology Thonburi Research Grant through the National Research Council Thailand and BRT_346004.
Fleshy-fruited plants in tropical forests largely rely on vertebrate frugivores to disperse their seeds.Although this plant-animal interaction is typically considered a diffuse mutualism,it is fundamental as it provid...
This work was supported by the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China(30930016);the State Basic Research Program(2007CB109102);the open fund from the Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology,Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,Chinese Acad-emy of Sciences.
Local extinction or population decline of large frugivorous vertebrates as primary seed dispersers,caused by hu-man disturbance and habitat change,might lead to dispersal limitation of many large-seeded fruit trees.Ho...
financed by the Cooperation Research Program of KUPRI,the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows,the 21st Century COE Program,the Global COE Program "Formation of a Strategic Base for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Research:from Genome to Ecosystem"
Quantification of fruit fall is the only way to compare fruit food availability among different studies. This study aims to reveal the general characteristics of fruit fall in temperate forests, which should offer ind...