Non-specialized frugivores as key seed dispersers in dry disturbed environments: An example with a generalist neotropical mesocarnivore
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.04.015
Abstract: Abstract Animals that consume fleshy fruits and disperse seeds provide valuable services to plants. Yet in a world increasingly defaunated and affected by habitat disturbance specialized frugivores may become rapidly extinct. Thus it is important… read more here.
Keywords: dispersers dry; mesocarnivore; frugivores key; non specialized ... See more keywords
Camera traps reveal an apparent mutualism between a common mesocarnivore and an endangered ungulate
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DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2017.08.007
Abstract: Abstract Camera traps are commonly used to study mammal ecology and they occasionally capture previously undocumented species interactions. The key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) is an endangered endemic subspecies of the Florida Keys, where it… read more here.
Keywords: deer; key deer; camera traps; mesocarnivore ... See more keywords