The dispersal syndrome hypothesis: How animals shaped fruit traits, and how they did not

By K. Valenta, Omer Nevo. Functional Ecology, 2020

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1. Fleshy fruits have evolved multiple times and display a tremendous diversity of colours, shapes, aromas and textures. For over a century this was attributed, at least in part, to frugivore-driven selection. The dispersal syndrome hypothesis posits that fruits and frugivores co-evolved, each exerting sufficient selective pressure on one another, and resulting to in suites of fruit traits that match frugivore behaviour, morphology and sensory capacities. 2. In the last two

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Sensory Systems

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