Keystone Characteristics of Bird-Dispersed Ficus in a Malaysian Lowland Rain Forest
1991; Wiley; Volume: 79; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2260668
ISSN1365-2745
AutoresFrank R. Lambert, Adrian G. Marshall,
Tópico(s)Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
ResumoThe fruiting of 307 Ficus trees in 74 ha of lowland forest at Kuala Lompat, Malaysia, was monitored monthly for 3 years. The guild of twenty-nine species of bird-dispersed Ficus exhibited asynchronous fruiting phenology, with no recurrent annual pattern. Fig crops were available in all 36 months of the study, but whilst medium-sized and small-sized figs were always available, crops of large-fruited (mean fig diameter of>20 mm) bird-dispersed Ficus were scarce, with only around sixteen fruiting events year −1 km −2 of forest (...)
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