Publications

can forest fragmentation disrupt a conditional mutualism? a case from central amazon.	this is the first study to investigate whether scatter-hoarding behavior, a conditional mutualism, can be disrupted by forest fragmentation. we examined whether acouchies (myoprocta acouchy, rodentia) and agoutis (dasyprocta leporina, rodentia) changed scatter-hoarding behavior toward seeds of astrocaryum aculeatum (arecaceae) as a consequence of a decrease in forest-patch area. our study was conducted at the 30-year-old biological dynamics of forest fragments project, in central amazon, brazil. ...	2009	19633870
water availability not fruitfall modulates the dry season distribution of frugivorous terrestrial vertebrates in a lowland amazon forest.	terrestrial vertebrate frugivores constitute one of the major guilds in tropical forests. previous studies show that the meso-scale distribution of this group is only weakly explained by variables such as altitude and tree basal area in lowland amazon forests. for the first time we test whether seasonally limiting resources (water and fallen fruit) affect the dry season distribution in 25 species of terrestrial vertebrates. to examine the effects of the spatial availability of fruit and water on ...	2017	28301589