dc.contributorStanford Univ
dc.contributorUniversidade de São Paulo (USP)
dc.contributorUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-30T18:48:14Z
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-20T13:57:35Z
dc.date.available2013-09-30T18:48:14Z
dc.date.available2014-05-20T13:57:35Z
dc.date.created2013-09-30T18:48:14Z
dc.date.created2014-05-20T13:57:35Z
dc.date.issued2009-11-01
dc.identifierEcological Research. Tokyo: Springer Tokyo, v. 24, n. 6, p. 1187-1195, 2009.
dc.identifier0912-3814
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/20518
dc.identifier10.1007/s11284-009-0601-x
dc.identifierWOS:000270837500003
dc.identifier3431375174670630
dc.description.abstractTropical forests have been subject to intense hunting of medium and large frugivores that are important in dispersing large-seeded species. It has been hypothesized that in areas with extinction or low abundance of medium and large-bodied animals the density of small rodents may increase. Therefore, this increment in the density of small rodents may compensate for the absence or low abundance of medium and large frugivores on seed removal and seed dispersal. Here, we fill up this gap in the literature by determining if seed removal, seed dispersal, and seed predation by small rodents (spiny rats, Trinomys inheringi and squirrels, Sciurus ingrami) are maintained in defaunated areas. We accessed seed removal, seed dispersal, seed predation, and seedling recruitment of an endemic Atlantic rainforest palm, Astrocaryum aculeatissimum, in a gradient of abundance of agoutis. We found that seed removal, scatter hoarding, and seed predation increase with the abundance of agoutis. In contrast, the proportion of dispersed but non-cached seeds decreased with the abundance of agoutis. We did not find any effect of the abundance of agoutis on seed dispersal distance, but we did find a positive trend on the density of seedlings. We concluded that small rodents do not compensate the low abundance of agoutis on seed removal, scatter hoarding, and seed predation of this palm tree. Moreover, areas in which agoutis are already extinct did not present any seed removal or scatter hoarding, not even by small rodents. This study emphasizes both the importance of agoutis in dispersing seeds of A. aculeatissimum and the collapse in seed dispersal of this palm in areas where agoutis are already extinct.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSpringer Tokyo
dc.relationEcological Research
dc.relation1.531
dc.relation0,699
dc.rightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceWeb of Science
dc.subjectCompensation
dc.subjectDasyprocta
dc.subjectDefaunation
dc.subjectTrinomys
dc.subjectSciurus
dc.titleSeed dispersal and predation in the endemic Atlantic rainforest palm Astrocaryum aculeatissimum across a gradient of seed disperser abundance
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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