Secondary metabolites of vertebrate-dispersed fruits: evidence for adaptive functions

In this paper, I discuss recent evidence concerning the adaptive significance of secondary metabolites in ripe fleshy fruits, and implications for seed dispersal by birds and other vertebrates. Specifically, I revisit a number of adaptive hypotheses originally presented and discussed by Cipollini &a...

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Main Author: CIPOLLINI,MARTIN L.
Language:English
Published: Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2000
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2000000300006
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