Feeding assemblages of mammals at fruiting Dipteryx panamensis (Papilionaceae) trees in Panama: seed predation, dispersal, and parasitism
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 1980 |
| Descripción: | Fruiting almendro trees, Dipteryx panamensis, are visited by sixteen species of mammals that eat the fruits exocarp or seed. Seeds are susceptible to predation by granivorous rodents and peccaries. Most mammals that visit Dipteryx trees act as commensals·, eating only the fleshy exocarp and dropping the endocarp with its enclosed seed below the parent tree. So me primates, tayras, coatis, and kinkajous occasionally disperse Dipteryx seeds, but only Artibeus lituratus, Dasyprocta punctata, and Sciurus granatensis disperse large numbers of seeds. Whether D. punctata or S. granatensis act as seed predators or dispersal agents depends on the behavioral context in which they handle fruits. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/25616 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/25616 |