Title |
Possible Fruit Protein Effects on Primate Communities in Madagascar and the Neotropics
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, December 2009
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0008253 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Summer Arrigo-Nelson, Sue Boinski, An Bollen, Valentina Carrai, Abigail Derby, Giuseppe Donati, Andreas Koenig, Martin Kowalewski, Petra Lahann, Ivan Norscia, Sandra Y. Polowinsky, Christoph Schwitzer, Pablo R. Stevenson, Mauricio G. Talebi, Chia Tan, Erin R. Vogel, Patricia C. Wright |
Abstract |
The ecological factors contributing to the evolution of tropical vertebrate communities are still poorly understood. Primate communities of the tropical Americas have fewer folivorous but more frugivorous genera than tropical regions of the Old World and especially many more frugivorous genera than Madagascar. Reasons for this phenomenon are largely unexplored. We developed the hypothesis that Neotropical fruits have higher protein concentrations than fruits from Madagascar and that the higher representation of frugivorous genera in the Neotropics is linked to high protein concentrations in fruits. Low fruit protein concentrations in Madagascar would restrict the evolution of frugivores in Malagasy communities. |
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Brazil | 7 | 4% |
United States | 7 | 4% |
Germany | 3 | 2% |
Madagascar | 2 | 1% |
Spain | 1 | <1% |
Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
Japan | 1 | <1% |
India | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 173 | 88% |
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Researcher | 44 | 22% |
Student > Master | 26 | 13% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 7% |
Other | 42 | 21% |
Unknown | 14 | 7% |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 120 | 61% |
Environmental Science | 37 | 19% |
Social Sciences | 8 | 4% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5 | 3% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 2% |
Other | 7 | 4% |
Unknown | 15 | 8% |