Jalene M. LaMontagne

Nov 16, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Fei Yu |Mingming Zhang |Yang Wang |Jalene M. LaMontagne

Aim The evolution of fruit size is poorly understood, though long-standing hypotheses, the dispersal syndrome hypothesis and correlated evolution hypothesis, have highlighted the influence of frugivores and phylogeny on fruit size variation. Location Interaction networks were extracted from studies carried out in Asia, Europe, Africa, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and the Neotropics. Time Period Up to 50 years between 1970 and 2022.

Jun 29, 2023 | nature.com | Tong Qiu |Marie-Claire Aravena |Yves Bergeron |Michal Bogdziewicz |Thomas Boivin |Thomas Caignard | +44 more

AbstractThe benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals) include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen and seed dispersers. If the evolution of masting represents a balance between these benefits and costs, we expect mast avoidance in species that are heavily reliant on mutualist dispersers.