SEED PREDATION BY NEOTROPICAL RAIN FOREST MAMMALS INCREASES DIVERSITY IN SEEDLING RECRUITMENT

Ecology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 88 (12) ◽  
pp. 3076-3087 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Timothy Paine ◽  
Harald Beck
Keyword(s):  
Seed Predation ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Seedling Recruitment ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Intraspecific variation in seed size affects scatterhoarding behaviour of an Australian tropical rain-forest rodent

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tad C. Theimer
Keyword(s):  
Seed Size ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Seedling Recruitment ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Seed Removal ◽  
Tropical Tree Species ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Vertebrate seed dispersers could impact the evolution of seed size or alter the pattern of seedling recruitment if they responded differently to seeds of varying size (Jordano 1995). For example, models of seed caching by birds and mammals predict that seeds of higher nutritive value should be placed farther from parent trees and in lower densities than lower quality seeds (Clarkson et al. 1986, Stapanian & Smith 1978, Tamura et al. 1999). Comparisons of seed removal rates among tropical tree species in South-East Asia (Blate et al. 1998) and Australia (Osunkoya 1994) failed to show a relationship between seed size and removal rate, although the probability that a seed was scatterhoarded by agoutis (Dasyprocta punctata) in a neotropical rain forest increased with interspecific seed size (Forget et al. 1998).

Size-Related Differential Seed Predation in a Heavily Defaunated Neotropical Rain Forest

Biotropica ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Dirzo ◽  
Eduardo Mendoza ◽  
Patricia Ortíz
Keyword(s):  
Seed Predation ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Rodent seed predation and seedling recruitment in mesic grassland

Oecologia ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Edwards ◽  
M. J. Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Seed Predation ◽  
Seedling Recruitment ◽  
Mesic Grassland

Life History Diversity of Canopy and Emergent Trees in a Neotropical Rain Forest

1992 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Clark ◽  
David B. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Ecological and isotopic discrimination of syntopic rodents in a neotropical rain forest of French Guiana

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-François Mauffrey ◽  
François Catzeflis
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotopes ◽  
Isotopic Composition ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Ecological Studies ◽  
Carbon Isotope Ratios ◽  
Photosynthetic Pathways ◽  
Feeding Process ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest

Stable isotopes are commonly used in ecological studies to infer food resources (Ambrose & DeNiro 1986, Bocherens et al. 1990,1991,1994;Yoshinaga et al. 1991) since isotopic composition is conserved during the feeding process. Moreover,for herbivorous (sensu lato) species, it is often possible to identify the main resource because different photosynthetic pathways generate different values of carbon isotope ratios (Park & Epstein 1961, Sternberg et al. 1984). This allows the characterization of broad biota such as savannas or forest and discrimination of grazers from sympatric folivorous species (DeNiro & Epstein 1978).

Land-use Change Dynamics, Soil Type and Species Forming Mono-dominant Patches: the Case ofPteridium aquilinumin a Neotropical Rain Forest Region

Biotropica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ireri Suazo-Ortuño ◽  
Leonel Lopez-Toledo ◽  
Javier Alvarado-Díaz ◽  
Miguel Martínez-Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Type ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Change Dynamics ◽  
Forest Region ◽  
Neotropical Rain Forest
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