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Ecol Evol. 2017 Feb 04;7(5):1435-1441. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2756. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Long-term consistency in spatial patterns of primate seed dispersal.

Ecology and evolution

Eckhard W Heymann, Laurence Culot, Christoph Knogge, Tony Enrique Noriega Piña, Emérita R Tirado Herrera, Matthias Klapproth, Dietmar Zinner

Affiliations

  1. Verhaltensökologie & Soziobiologie Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung Göttingen Germany.
  2. Verhaltensökologie & Soziobiologie Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung Göttingen Germany; Laboratório de Primatologia Departamento de Zoologia Universidade Estadual Paulista Rio Claro SP Brazil; Primatology Research Group Behavioral Biology UnitUniversity of Liège Liège Belgium.
  3. Verhaltensökologie & Soziobiologie Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung Göttingen Germany; Present address: Caixa Postal 47 Nazaré Paulista São Paulo12960-000 Brazil.
  4. Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana Iquitos Peru.
  5. Kognitive Ethologie Deutsches Primatenzentrum, Leibniz-Institut für Primatenforschung Göttingen Germany.

PMID: 28261455 PMCID: PMC5330868 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2756

Abstract

Seed dispersal is a key ecological process in tropical forests, with effects on various levels ranging from plant reproductive success to the carbon storage potential of tropical rainforests. On a local and landscape scale, spatial patterns of seed dispersal create the template for the recruitment process and thus influence the population dynamics of plant species. The strength of this influence will depend on the long-term consistency of spatial patterns of seed dispersal. We examined the long-term consistency of spatial patterns of seed dispersal with spatially explicit data on seed dispersal by two neotropical primate species,

Keywords: dispersal; dispersal distances; frugivores; kernel density estimates; plant–animal interactions; tropical forest

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