Evidence for herbaceous seed dispersal by small-bodied fishes in a Pantanal seasonal wetland
We analysed the germination of seeds after their passage through the digestive tract of small floodplain fishes. Samples were collected in five open flooded fields of the northern Pantanal in March 2011. All fishes were sacrificed and their intestinal contents were removed. The fecal material was we...
Main Authors: | RML Silveira, B Weiss |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Biology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842014000300588&lng=en&tlng=en |
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