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Fleshy pulp enhances the location of Syagrus romanzoffiana (Arecaceae) fruits by seed-dispersing rodents in an Atlantic forest in south-eastern Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2005

Paulo R. Guimarães ,
Priscila F. M. Lopes ,
Mariana L. Lyra  and
Ana Paula Muriel
Paulo R. Guimarães
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Priscila F. M. Lopes
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Mariana L. Lyra
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Genética e Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Caixa Postal 6010, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Ana Paula Muriel
Affiliation:
Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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Abstract

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Rodents are the most diverse group of terrestrial mammals in neotropical forests (Emmons & Feer 1997). The interaction of rodents with plants is often pivotal for seed survival (Peres & Baider 1997, Vander Wall 1990). Many rodent species are seed predators (Brewer 2001, Galetti et al. 1992, Hoch & Adler 1997). However, some neotropical rodents, especially dasyproctids (such as Dasyprocta and Myoprocta) and echimyids (Proechimys), are important secondary seed dispersers for large-seeded plants (Forget 1993, 1994; Hoch & Adler 1997, Wenny 1999).

Keywords

Caviomorphafood hoardingpalmseed dispersalseed predation
Type
Brief Report
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 109 - 112
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press