FSD 2010 - Poster Flyer Legend

5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (1985-2010)

Legend for Poster and Flyer

Herebelow, frugivores, fruit and habitats that served to illustrate the posters and flyer. Many thanks to colleagues who shared pictures.

Aldabra Giant Tortoise

Aldabrachelys gigantea eating a palm fruit in Mauritius © Dr. Dennis Hansen.

Hansen, D.M., et al. 2008. Seed dispersal and establishment of endangered plants on Oceanic islands: The Janzen-Connell model, and the use of ecological analogues. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2111 FREE on line

Chimpanzee

Adult female Pan troglodytes and her less than a year old son feeding on the fruit of a fig tree, Ficus sur (Moraceae) in Kibale National Park, Uganda © Alain Houle.

Houle, A., et al. 2007. Within-tree variation in fruit primary productivity among 18 tree species in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Int. J. Primatol 28 (6):1197-1217.

Central-American Agouti

Dasyprocta punctata eating an Attalea butyraceae palm fruit at Barro Colorado Island, Republic of Panama © Pierre-Michel Forget.

Forget, P.-M. et al. 1994. Predation on seeds falling late in the fruiting season of Scheelea palm on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biotropica 26: 408-419. pdf.

Rhinoceros Hornbill

Buceros rhinoceros from Kalimantan, Indonesia. © Rhett A. Buttler - Mongabay.com

Kitamura, S., et al. 2004. Pattern and impact of hornbill seed dispersal at nest trees in a moist evergreen forest in Thailand. J. Tropical Ecology 20:545-553.

Flying Fox

Epomophorus gambianus from Piama, Mali. © Jakob Fahr.

Djossa, B. A., et al. 2008. Fruit selection and effects of seed handling by flying foxes on germination rates of shea trees, a key resource in northern Benin, West Africa. Ecotropica 1 4:37-48. pdf

BIOTA project

Ecofor Program

Banaquit

Coereba flaveola eating Cecropia schreberiana (Cecropiaceae) fruit in Puerto Rico. © Tomás Carlo

Carlo, T.A, et al. 2007. Plant-frugivore interactions as spatially explicit networks: integrating animal foraging and fruiting plant spatial patterns.Pages 369-390 in A. Dennis, E. Schupp, and D. Wescott (Eds.) Seed dispersal: theory and its application in a changing world, CABI, Oxon, UK. pdf

Puerto Rican Spindalis

Spindalis portoricensis eating unripe Eugenia xerophytica (Myrtaceae) fruit in Puerto Rico © Tomás Carlo

Carlo , T. A. et al. 2003. Avian fruit preferences across a Puerto Rican forested landscape: pattern consistency and implications for seed removal. Oecologia 134:119-131. pdf

Forest Elephant

Loxodonta africana cyclotis in Northern Congo. © Michael Kock. It is a young adult male fitted with a GPS tag in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in Northern Congo.

Blake, S., Deem. S. L., Maisels, F. and Walsh, P. D. 2009. Forest Elephants: tree planters of Congo. Biotropica 41(4):459-468. Abstract.

Mongabay.com

Rodent-Dispersed Species

Forget, P.-M. 1992. Seed removal and seed fate in Gustavia superba (Lecythidaceae). Biotropica 24:408-414. pdf.

Bird-Dispersed Species

Alder Buckthorn Frangula alnus subsp. Baetica, Rhamnaceae) in Los Alcornocales Natural Park, Cadiz province, Spain © Arndt Hampe.

Hampe, A. 2008. Fruit tracking, frugivore satiation, and their consequences for seed dispersal. Oecologia 156:37-145.

Jay/Rodent-Dispersed Species

Research program : Demo-genetic consequences of acorn harvesting by jays: bridging seed dispersal and recruitment in oak woodlands. Supervisor R. Petit

Primate/Bird-Dispersed Species

Staudtia stipitata (Myristicaceae) at Korup National Park, Cameroun © Pierre-Michel Forget. More about Korup at wikipedia

Holbrook, K.M. and T. B. Smith. 2000.Seed dispersal and movement patterns in two species of Ceratogymna hornbills in a West African tropical lowland forest. Oecologia 125:249-257, pdf.

Habitat (Background)


Tropical Mountain rainforest and tea plantation at the border of the Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda. © Pierre-Michel Forget	Lowland tropical continuous rainforest at National Reserve of Nouragues, French Guiana. © Pierre-Michel Forget