Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2brh9 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T10:50:21.779Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Seed dispersal and vegetation dynamics at a cock-of-the-rock's lek in the tropical forest of French Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Marc Théry  and
Denis Larpin
Marc Théry
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, URA 1183
Denis Larpin
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, URA 1183
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Keywords

French Guianafrugivorylekplant-animal interactionsRupicola rupicolasee dispersalseedling survivaltropical forest succession
Type
Short Communication
Information
Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 109 - 116
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

LITERATURE CITED

Erard, C. & Sabatier, D. 1989. Role des oiseaux frugivores terrestres dans la dynamique forestière en Guyane française. Proceedings of the International Ornithological Congress, 19:803–815.Google Scholar
Erard, C., Théry, M. & Sabatier, D. 1989. Régime alimentaire de Rupicola rupicola (Cotingidae) en Guyane française. Relations avec la frugivorie et la zoochorie. Revue d'Ecologie (Tirre et Vie) 44:47–74.Google Scholar
Erard, C., Théry, M. & Sabatier, D. 1991. Régime alimentaire de Tinamus major (Tinamiidae), Crax alector (Cracidae) et Psophia crepitans (Psophiidae), en forêt guyanaise. Gibier Faune Sauvage 8:183–210.Google Scholar
Gilliard, E. T. 1962. On the breeding behavior of the cock-of-the-rock (Aves, Rupicola rupicola). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 124:31–68.Google Scholar
Julliot, C. & Sabatier, D. In press. Diet of the red howler monkey (Allouata seniculus) in French Guiana. International Journal of Primatology.Google Scholar
Larpin, D. 1989. Evolution floristique et structurale d'un recrû forestier en Guyane française. Revue d'Ecologie (Terre et vie) 44:209–224.Google Scholar
Lieberman, D., Hall, J. B., Swaine, M. D. & Lieberman, M. 1979. Seed dispersal by baboons in the Shai Hills, Ghana. Ecology 60:65–75.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lieberman, M. & Lieberman, D. 1980. The origin of gardening as an extension of intra-human seed dispersal. Biotropica 12:316–317.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schuchmann, K. L. 1984. Zur ernährung des cayenne felsenhahnes (Rupicola rupicola). Journal für Ornithology 125:239–241.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Snow, D. W. 1971. Notes on the biology of the cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola rupicola). Journal für Ornithology 112:323–333.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Trail, P. W. 1985. Territoriality and dominance in the lek-breeding Guianan cock-of-the-rock. National Geographic Research 1:112–123.Google Scholar
Théry, M. 1990. Ecologie et comportement des oiseaux Pipridae en Guyane: leks, frugivorie et dissemination des graines. Thèse de Doctoral de l'Université Paris 6.Google Scholar