Post-dispersal predation and scatterhoar
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Pierre-Michel Forget
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Article
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1993
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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In tropical rain forests of Central America, the canopy tree Dipteryx panamensis (Papilionaceae) fruits when overall fruit biomass is low for mammals. Flying and arboreal consumers feed on D. panamensis and drop seeds under the parent or disperse them farther away. Seeds on the ground attract many v