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The Relationship Between Fruit Crop Sizes and Fruit Removal Rates by Birds
Author(s) -
Davidar Priya,
Morton Eugene S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1938529
Subject(s) - citation , crop , biology , ecology , library science , computer science
It has been proposed that large fruit crops attract disproportionately more frugivores than smaller fruit crops (Snow 1971, Howe and Estabrook 1977). If this is so, then competition between plants for frugivores could be an important source of selection on fruit crop sizes. Field tests of this hypothesis on tropical trees have produced equivocal results (Howe and Smallwood 1982). In six species of fall-fruiting temperate plants, we asked whether the percentage of the fruit that was removed was related to the size of the fruit

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