The capacity of seeds to germinate after ingestion by frugivores is important for the
population dynamics of some plant species and significant for the evolution of plant …

Discussion of successional change has traditionally focused on plants. The role of animals
in producing and responding to successional change has received far less attention …

Bats are abundant and effective seed dispersers inside the forest, but what happens when a
forest is fragmented and transformed into pasture? The landscape at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico …

The time at which a seedling emerges can determine its future success as a plant. Despite
the large number of studies that have examined the effect of emergence time on different …

The importance of the first mechanism and the modification of seed coat traits (eg,
permeability of the coat to water and gases) after gut treatment, which changes the capacity …

This chapter evaluates the role of endozoochory on seed germination and reviews the
information gathered on germination patterns in experiments aimed at examining the effect …

El objetivo de esta revisión es responder a dos preguntas básicas:(1)¿ contribuyen los
murciélaigos frugívoros neotropicales como agentes dispersores de semillas, a la …

1. Many studies have examined the effects of frugivores on the germination of seeds of
fleshy fruited plants. However, three key issues are rarely addressed: the need to measure …

Summary 1 Seed germination characteristics are often modified after seeds are ingested by
frugivores. Factors that are intrinsic either to the plant or to the frugivore's digestive tract are …

1 The fruit-colour polymorphism of Myrtus communis, a common Mediterranean shrub, is
examined. We investigate whether frugivores affect the maintenance of the polymorphism …