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Ecological consequences of primary and secondary seed dispersal on seed and seedling fate of Dipteryx oleifera (Fabaceae)

dc.creatorRuiz, Javier
dc.creatorBoucher, Douglas H.
dc.creatorChaves, Luis F.
dc.creatorIngram Flóres, Cherryl
dc.creatorGuillén, Delvis
dc.creatorTórrez, René
dc.creatorMartínez, Oscar
dc.date2009-08-03
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-03T15:26:21Z
dc.date.available2016-05-03T15:26:21Z
dc.identifierhttp://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/5259
dc.identifier10.15517/rbt.v58i2.5259
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/25843
dc.descriptionThe relative contributions of primary and secondary seed dispersal to plant demography have received little investigation. Evidence on these seed dispersal types, on seed fate and seedling recruitment of the tropical rain forest tree Dipteryx oleifera, is presented. The study was conducted in a 6.37ha permanent plot where seeds and seedlings were located and tagged for the 2007 cohort. A total of 2 814 seeds were threaded and their fate was followed one year after germination. Primary seed dispersal by bats protected seeds from insect larval predation below the adult tree. Bats congregated seeds in bat seed piles located at a mean distance of 40.94±1.48m from the nearest adult individual of D. oleifera. Terrestrial vertebrates congregated seeds in caches located 41.90±2.43m from the nearest adult individual of D. oleifera. The results of the fitted proportional hazard model suggested that primary seed dispersal decreased seed hazard probability by 1.12% for each meter from the adult conspecific (p < 0.001) and that secondary seed dispersal decreased it by 23.97% (p < 0.001). Besides, the odds ratio regression models results showed that the overall effect of unviable seeds was a reduction in viable seed predation rate. For each unviable seed deposited by bats into the seed piles, the rate of seed predation by terrestrial vertebrates decreased 6% (p < 0.001). For each damaged seed by terrestrial vertebrates in the seed piles, the rate of germination decreased 4% (p < 0.001). For each germinated seed in the seed piles, the rate of recruitment increased 16% (p=0.001). Seedling survival of seeds that emerged after secondary seed dispersal events, showed no statistically significant difference in arthropod herbivory, in relation to seedlings that came from seeds that were dispersed only primarily by bats (F=0.153, p=0.697, df=1.98). Thus both primary and secondary dispersal contributed to higher seedling survival away from the nearest adult D. oleifera (r2=0.713, n=578, p=0.004). The distribution of D. oleifera seedlings is consistent with the Janzen-Connell Hypothesis and depends on primary dispersal by bats, secondary dispersal by terrestrial vertebrates, a seed masking effect and, the constant threat of insect herbivores on seedlings. Rev. Biol. Trop. 58 (3): 991-1007. Epub 2010 September 01.en
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad de Costa Ricaen
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2014 International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservationen
dc.sourceRevista de Biología Tropical/International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation; Vol. 58 (3) September 2010es-ES
dc.source2215-2075
dc.source0034-7744
dc.source10.15517/rbt.v58i2
dc.titleEcological consequences of primary and secondary seed dispersal on seed and seedling fate of Dipteryx oleifera (Fabaceae)en
dc.typeartículo original
dc.coverageCRCen


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