Continental-scale patterns and climatic drivers of fruiting phenology: A quantitative Neotropical review

I Mendoza, CA Peres, LPC Morellato - Global and Planetary Change, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in the life cycle of organisms (ie phenology) are one of the most widely
used early-warning indicators of climate change, yet this remains poorly understood …

Inter‐annual variability of fruit timing and quantity at Nouragues (French Guiana): insights from hierarchical Bayesian analyses

I Mendoza, RS Condit, SJ Wright, A Caubère… - Biotropica, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The timing and quantity of fruit production are major determinants of the functioning of a
forest community, but simultaneous analyses of both are rare. We analyzed a ten‐year …

Modifications of the rain forest frugivore community are associated with reduced seed removal at the community level

O Boissier, F Feer, PY Henry… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical rain forests worldwide are under increasing pressure from human activities, which
are altering key ecosystem processes such as plant–animal interactions. However, while the …

Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants

H Qin, X Yi - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Two economies of scale, predator satiation and pollination efficiency, have
been proposed to explain the evolutionary mechanisms of mast seeding adopted by some …

Podocnemis expansa turtles hint to a unifying explanation for the evolution of temperature-dependent sex determination in long-lived and short-lived vertebrates

N Valenzuela - Sexual Development, 2021 - karger.com
The adaptive significance of temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) remains
elusive for many long-lived reptiles. Various hypotheses proposed potential ecological …

Roads disrupt frugivory and seed removal in tropical animal-dispersed plants in French Guiana

O Coutant, O Boissier, M Ducrettet… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ecological interactions are being affected at unprecedented rates by human activities in
tropical forests. Yet, the continuity of ecological functions provided by animals, such as seed …

Mast seeding is stronger in taller plants

H Qin, X Yi - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction Two economies of scale, predator satiation and pollination efficiency, have
been proposed to explain the evolutionary mechanisms of mast seeding adopted by some …

Natural and anthropogenic factors influence flowering synchrony and reproduction of a dominant plant in an inter‐Andean scrub

DP Vélez‐Mora, K Trigueros‐Alatorre… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Agriculture expansion, livestock, and global change have transformed biological
communities and altered, through aerosols and direct deposition, N: P balance in soils of …

Seed size and dispersal mode select mast seeding in perennial plants

F Yu, M Zhang, Y Yang, Y Wang, X Yi - Integrative Zoology, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Reproduction by perennial plants varies from being relatively constant over years to the
production of massive and synchronous seed crops at irregular intervals, a reproductive …

Le rôle des rongeurs dans la dispersion des diaspores en milieu forestier (synthèse bibliographique)

Q Evrard, B Haurez, JL Doucet - Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société …, 2017 - orbi.uliege.be
Introduction. La dispersion des diaspores constitue une interaction clé qui influence de
nombreux processus écologiques utiles au maintien de la diversité des écosystèmes …