Contrasting selective pressures on seed traits of two congeneric species by their main native guilds of dispersers on islands.

Many fleshy-fruited plants from the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands are dispersed through endozoochory. In mainland Mediterranean areas, reciprocal adaptations have been found between plants and animals, although evidence is scarce. On small isolated oceanic islands, such reciprocal adaptatio...

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Main Authors: Manuel Nogales, Aarón González-Castro, Patricia Marrero, Elsa Bonnaud, Anna Traveset
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3646774?pdf=render