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 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...
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...