| Title |
Seed Dispersal Anachronisms: Rethinking the Fruits Extinct Megafauna Ate
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, March 2008
|
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0001745 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Paulo R. Guimarães, Mauro Galetti, Pedro Jordano |
| Abstract |
Some neotropical, fleshy-fruited plants have fruits structurally similar to paleotropical fruits dispersed by megafauna (mammals > 10(3) kg), yet these dispersers were extinct in South America 10-15 Kyr BP. Anachronic dispersal systems are best explained by interactions with extinct animals and show impaired dispersal resulting in altered seed dispersal dynamics. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 2 | 18% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 9% |
| Argentina | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Scientists | 3 | 27% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 790 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 34 | 4% |
| United States | 15 | 2% |
| Spain | 6 | <1% |
| Colombia | 5 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| India | 4 | <1% |
| Mexico | 3 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 13 | 2% |
| Unknown | 702 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 150 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 125 | 16% |
| Researcher | 123 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 111 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 55 | 7% |
| Other | 146 | 18% |
| Unknown | 80 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 465 | 59% |
| Environmental Science | 155 | 20% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 26 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 2% |
| Engineering | 8 | 1% |
| Other | 23 | 3% |
| Unknown | 101 | 13% |