Geographic patterns in fruit colour diversity: Do leaves constrain the colour of fleshy fruits?

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 337-343

  Burns, Kevin C ^a   Cazetta, Eliana ^b   Galetti, Mauro ^b   Valido, Alfredo ^c,d   Schaefer, H Martin ^e  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Frugivore; Plant signalling; Seed dispersal; Tetrahedral colour space

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COLOR; DETECTION METHOD; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; SEED DISPERSAL; SIGNALING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; COLOR; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAF;

COLOR; EVOLUTION; FRUIT; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT LEAVES;

AVES;

EID: 60449107092     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1227-3     Document Type: Article

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