🐦🫐 Anthropogenic disturbances simplify frugivory interactions in Amazonia

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#βdiversity #ForestFires #FrugivoryNetworks #SeedDispersal #SeedPredation #TropicalForests

New NIOO publication: Quantifying the mutualism-antagonism continuum for seed removal by a granivorous disperser. #seeddispersal #seedpredation #granivores #frugivores
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.02.005

Intriguing new paper by Hernández-Brito et al.:

Context-dependent plant–bird interactions shape polychory across the antagonism–mutualism continuum

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#PlantandEnvironmentalScience

#Aves

#Ecology

#Food

#SeedPredation

#SeedDispersal

#stomatochory

#endozoochory

Fig.1

Is it a seed or a shadow? No, it's a mystery phytophagous wasp. Someone suggested it's Bruchophagus but we've not tried the keys yet so we'll see.
#SeedEcology #seedpredation #entemology #ecology

Is it a seed or a shadow? No, it's a mystery phytophagous wasp. Someone suggested it's Bruchophagus but we've not tried the keys yet so we'll see but any suggestions are most welcome. #SeedEcology #SeedPredation #entemology #ecology

In King Coal County, Coal tits are king.
More common that Great tit. @seedpredation going on, maybe followed by @seeddispersal @durham_uni

Effects of seed mass on seed foraging behaviors of two sympatric rodent species
#SeedPredation #AcornMass #Rodents

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