| Small-scale habitat specificity by frugivorous birds might affect their patterns of use of space and, consequently, may influence the range of habitats over which seeds are disseminated. These differences may translate into non-redundancy among bird assemblages using different habitats. I tested this hypothesis by capturing birds in two habitats within shaded mixed plantations in a Bolivian Andean forest (plantation interior and plantation edges with the forest matrix) and comparing the seeds found in their droppings. I found that, despite differences in bird assemblage composition and activity, the overall seed rain was similar among habitats: the seed rain in edges was only slightly richer in species than in the plantation interior, but species... |
