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SUBMITTER: Heymann EW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658533 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heymann Eckhard W EW Culot Laurence L Knogge Christoph C Smith Andrew C AC Tirado Herrera Emérita R ER Müller Britta B Stojan-Dolar Mojca M Lledo Ferrer Yvan Y Kubisch Petra P Kupsch Denis D Slana Darja D Koopmann Mareike Lena ML Ziegenhagen Birgit B Bialozyt Ronald R Mengel Christina C Hambuckers Julien J Heer Katrin K
Scientific reports 20190725 1
Increasingly large proportions of tropical forests are anthropogenically disturbed. Where natural regeneration is possible at all, it requires the input of plant seeds through seed dispersal from the forest matrix. Zoochorous seed dispersal - the major seed dispersal mode for woody plants in tropical forests - is particularly important for natural regeneration. In this study, covering a period of more than 20 years, we show that small New World primates, the tamarins Saguinus mystax and Leontoce ...[more]