Nutmeg Dispersal by Tropical Birds
- 21 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 210 (4472) , 925-927
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.210.4472.925
Abstract
Frugivorous birds preferentially remove fruits from Panamanian Virola trees where the ratio of edible aril to indigestible seed is high. A negative correlation between the proportion of the crop removed and mean seed size explains 59 percent of the variance in removal, suggesting that birds minimize ingestion of useless bulk.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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