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Fruits and frugivores of the Brazilian Cerrado: ecological and phylogenetic considerations
Provedor de dados: Acta Botanica Brasilica
Autores: Kuhlmann,Marcelo; Ribeiro,José Felipe.
ABSTRACT Knowing the morphological and phylogenetic patterns of fruits of a plant community may elucidate plant-frugivore interactions, and analysis of dispersal syndromes is a practical approach to understanding these mutualisms. We investigated different zoochorous fruits and frugivorous animals among Cerrado formations (forest, savanna and grassland), mapped dispersal syndromes on a Cerrado angiosperm phylogeny and tested for phylogenetic signal. For a core region in Cerrado, we found that, among almost a thousand fruit species and 258 fruit-eating vertebrates, 60% of the fruits had an ornithochorous syndrome and that 70% of the frugivores were birds. Most fruit and frugivorous species (~80%) inhabit forest formations, but many of them also occurred in...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Cerrado biome; Diaspores; Dispersal syndromes; Forest; Fruit-eating animals; Grassland; Plant-frugivore interactions; Phylogenetic signal; Savanna.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062016000300495