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Linking the hierarchical decision- making process of fruit choice and the phenotypic selection strength on fruit traits by birds

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Journal of Plant Ecology 2017年第4期10卷 713-720页

作者： Facundo X.Palacio Juan Manuel Girini Mariano Ordano Fundación Miguel Lillo Miguel Lillo 251CP T4000JFESan Miguel de TucumánTucumánArgentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas(CONICET) Argentina Sección Ornitología División Zoología VertebradosFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y MuseoUniversidad Nacional de La PlataPaseo del Bosque s/nCP B1900FWALa PlataBuenos AiresArgentina

Aims Animals in search of fleshy fruits forage mostly according to the number of available fruits and then select individual fruits based on reward quality or advertised subtle traits.This hierarchical pat-tern of fruit choice would be translated into patterns of selection strength mediated by frugivores on fruit display traits.Thus,frugi-vores would exert higher selection pressures on fruit crop size and lower selection pressures on within-plant variation of phenotypic traits(infructescence,fruit and seed size).However,no attempt to link this behavioral mechanism of hierarchical trait selection to natural selection patterns has been made.Therefore,we sought to determine the relationship between the hierarchical decision-mak-ing process of fruit choice and patterns of natural selection on fruit traits.Methods We recorded bird visits and measured fruit-related traits(fruit crop size,fruit diameter and seed weight)in a natural population of Psychotria carthagenensis,a bird-dispersed treelet,in a Yungas for-est from Argentina.To assess phenotypic selection patterns on fruit display traits,we performed multivariate selection analysis,and to explicitly identify a hierarchy of fruit trait choice we used a classifi-cation tree as a predictive model.Important Findings selection patterns on fruit display traits were in agreement with a hierarchical process of fruit choice made by birds.The strength of directional selection on the total number of fruits in a plant(i.***.fruit crop size)was nearly two times higher than on fruit size,and the classification tree analysis supported this hierarchical pattern.Our results support previous evidence that seed dispersers shape fruit crop size with higher intensity than subindividual fruit traits.Also,high levels of subindividual phenotypic variation of fruit display traits may be explained by relaxed selection pressures exerted by frugivores.Empirical studies also show that this pattern may consti-tute a general phenomenon among other plant-animal interactions.

关键词： plant-animal interactions seed dispersal selection gradients subindividual variation

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