Primate seed dispersal: Coevolution and conservation implications
Primate seed dispersal: Coevolution and conservation implications
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.1360040303
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发表时间：
1995-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Chapman, Colin A.
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作者：
Chapman, Colin A.
对灵长类动物的早期研究表明，许多物种严重依赖水果，灵长类动物构成了热带森林中果食性生物量的很大一部分。因此，灵长类动物一直被认为是重要的种子传播者。直到最近，才有研究表明，以水果为食的灵长类动物和它们的食物树之间的相互作用具有复杂的本质。这些研究提出了一些问题，如灵长类动物群落之间有趣的差异的原因和结果，其他动物在相互作用中的重要性（如蜣螂和二次传播种子的啮齿动物），灵长类动物与植物的相互作用是如何进化的，以及灵长类动物在森林再生和保护中的意义。由于灵长类动物的生存和商业狩猎严重影响了果食性群落，但使森林的物理结构相对不变，灵长类动物种子传播的研究对种子传播者减少或消失的森林的未来具有重要意义。
Early studies of primates have demonstrated that many species rely heavily on fruit, and that primates constitute a large component of the frugivore biomass in tropical forests. Consequently, primates have long been thought to be important seed dispersers. It is only recently that studies have been conducted that have illustrated the complex nature of the interactions between fruit‐eating primates and their food trees. Such studies have raised questions as to the causes and conse‐quences of the intriguing differences between primate communities, the importance of other animals in the interactions (such as dung beetles and rodents that secon‐darily disperse seeds), how primate‐plant interactions evolve, and the significance of primates in forest regeneration and conservation. Since subsistence and com‐mercial hunting of primates has heavily impacted frugivore communities, but left the physical structure of the forest relatively unaltered, studies of primate seed dispersal have important implications for the future of forests where seed dispersers have declined or disappeared.