Frugivore gape size and the evolution of fruit size and shape in southern hemisphere floras

By J. Lord. 2004

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Incorporating patterns of disperser behaviour into models of seed dispersal and its effects on estimated dispersal curves (2005, background): “Thus, depending on their presence or absence in a community, large frugivores are hypothesised to have fostered the evolution or loss of large-seededness (Mack 1993; Lord 2004).”
Mutualisms with the wreckage of an avifauna: the status of bird pollination and fruit- dispersal in New Zealand (2010, unknown): “Although the New Zealand spectrum of volant frugivorous birds is more skewed towards lighter birds than the Australian spectrum (Lord et al. 2002; Lord 2004), there is little deficiency at the top end, with kereru nearly as heavy as the largest Australian dispersers (figure 4.5 in Lord et al. 2002).”
Patterns of Seed Dispersal and Dispersal Failure in a Hawaiian Dry Forest Having Only Introduced Birds (2010, background): “…of fruits and seeds that birds can consume or transport are constrained by a bird’s size (Wheelwright 1985, Stiles 2000, Meehan et al. 2002, Lord 2004, Buckley et al. 2006), small generalists like Japanese white-eyes may be preferentially consuming only smaller fruits and seeds, as birds…”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “sumer size and gape width is the key (Buckley et al., 2006; Burns and Lake, 2009; Jordano, 1995; Lord, 2004).”