Adaptation of Fruit Morphology to Dispersal Agents in a Neotropical Forest

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 219 Số 4581 - Trang 187-189 - 1983
Charles H. Janson1
1Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.

Tóm tắt

Two-thirds of 258 fruit species from Peruvian tropical forest belong to one of two classes: large orange, yellow, brown, or green fruits with a husk; or small red, black, white, blue, purple, or mixed-color fruits without a husk. The characteristics of the two fruit classes match the size, visual ability, and jaw morphology of mammals and birds, respectively, and the animals also prefer to eat one class of fruits. Thus, most plants in this forest seem to be adapted to seed dispersal by either of two distinct broad arrays of animal taxa.

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