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Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate

BACKGROUND: Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals >10(3) kg), yet these dispersers were extinct in South America 10–15 Kyr BP. Anachronic dispersal systems are best explained by interactions with extinct an...

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Autores principales: Guimarães, Paulo R., Galetti, Mauro, Jordano, Pedro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18320062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001745

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