Data/hora: 13/06/2024 04:07:41

Provedor de dados: | 49
País: | Brazil
Título: | The parakeet Brotogeris tirica feeds on and disperses the fruits of the palm Syagrus romanzoffiana in Southeastern Brazil
Autores: | Sazima,Ivan.
Data: | 2008-03-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Bird-plant symbiosis; Psittacidae; Arecaceae; Feeding behaviour; Synzoochory.
Resumo: | Small psittacids remain unrecorded as dispersal agents of palm fruits in Brazil. I record here the plain parakeet (Brotogeris tirica), an Atlantic forest endemic, feeding on and dispersing the fruits of the palm Syagrus romanzoffiana at Ubatuba, northern coast of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil. The birds removed the fruit and carried it away from the mother-tree in about 40% of the feeding records. While perched on trees and shrubs of the understorey, the parakeets removed and ingested most of the mesocarp, dropping the partly consumed fruit. As the parakeets damaged no the embryo and may feed at a distance from the mother-tree, they act as primary dispersal agents. This is the first substantiated record of a small Neotropical psittacid as a stomatochorous dispersal agent of palm fruits the size of A. romanzoffiana drupes.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032008000100026
Editor: | Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP
Relação: | 10.1590/S1676-06032008000100026
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Biota Neotropica  v.8 n.1 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess