Title
Effects of Passage Through Tamarin Guts on the Germination Potential of Dispersed Seeds
Date Issued
01 October 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abstract
Passage through tamarin guts may have an effect on seed germination potential. To examine these effects, and the variation between 2 sympatric tamarin species, we studied Saguinus mystax and S. fuscicollis in northeastern Peruvian Amazonia. For most of 39 plant species, neither germination success nor latency was modified by gut passage. Neutral effects on seed germination potential suggest that tamarins may fulfill criteria for effective seed dispersal.
Start page
1121
End page
1128
Volume
24
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Conservación de la Biodiversidad
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0038345215
Source
International Journal of Primatology
ISSN of the container
01640291
Sponsor(s)
We thank the Dirección Regional de Recursos Naturales y Medio Am-biente of the Gobierno Regional de Loreto in Iquitos for the authorizations to carry out research at the EBQB. We are grateful to Enrique Montoya G., Filomeno Encarnación C., Rolando Aquino Y. and Alfonso Gozalo S. from the Proyecto Peruano de Primatología for help and logistic support, and to our field assistants Ney Shahuano, Arsenio Calle C. and Camilo Flores A. for their excellent work. We are also thankful to Cecilia P. Alves-Costa, Dietmar P. Zinner and two anonymous referees for very constructive comments on the manuscript. Field research was financially supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (He 1870/3-[1,3]). ERTH was partially supported by a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (A/99/02924).
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