More fruits, more frugivores, but not necessarily more visits: findings from two tropical plant-avian frugivore communities
Rintu Mandal, Himanshu Lad, Natasha Desai, Rasika Kadam, Anand M. Osuri, Rohit Naniwadekar
The paper examines the relationship between fruit availability, frugivore abundance, and visitation rates in two tropical forests, finding that higher fruit availability does not always lead to higher visitation rates.
bioRxiv · Oct 9, 2026 · PreprintEcology