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| Ferreira,Paulo Henrique Gonçalves; Nunes,Yule Roberta Ferreira; Faria,Maurício Lopes; Brandão,Murilo Malveira; Costa,Cibele Stramare Ribeiro; Valério,Henrique Maia; Melo,Geraldo Aclécio; Pimenta,Marcio Antonio Silva. |
| ABSTRACT Seed predation is a natural phenomenon that can occur either before or after dispersal and can significantly reduce the economic value and reproductive potential of plants. The babassu palm (Attalea vitrivir, Arecaceae) is important to rural communities that extract oil from its fruits for a wide variety of uses. We evaluated the predation and germination of A. vitrivirseeds in Pandeiros River Environmental Protection Area (EPA-Pandeiros) in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Sixty individual plants were evaluated to determine their fruiting patterns. Seed predation and germination were evaluated in the natural environment for eight months for fruits divided into two treatments: scarified and intact. Germination of fruits submitted to these same... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Arecaceae; Attalea vitrivir; Babassu palm; Fruit; Seed germination; Seed predation. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062016000400658 |
