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Temporal Patterns of Pollination and Seed Dispersal in Capões of the Southern Pantanal

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This chapter provides an overview on flowering and fruiting phenology, pollination and seed dispersal syndromes of species occurring in the capões (natural forest patches) of the southern Pantanal wetland, Brazil. We monthly sampled three to five different capões from May 1999 to May 2000 for all reproductive plant individuals and recorded their habits, numbers of open flowers, unripe and ripe fruits. The dataset comprised 52 capões in total. We classified the species into pollination and seed dispersal syndromes based on flower and fruit traits, respectively. In total, we recorded 248 flowering species and 111 fruiting species. According to floral traits, melittophily (47%) was the most frequent pollination syndrome, whereas anemophily was recorded for only 3% of the species. Zoochory was the most frequent seed dispersal syndrome (64%), followed by anemochory (19%) and autochory (17%). Epizoochory represented 5% of the zoochoric species. The present study highlights the high resource availability for pollinators and seed dispersers in the capões throughout the year, with a peak during the rainy season. In addition, we show that most plant species in these forest patches depend on biotic vectors for reproduction, thereby ensuring the maintenance of biological diversity in the Pantanal.

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We thank A. Brun (in memoriam), P.A.A. Cara and L. Ramos for field assistance; G. Damasceno-Júnior and U. Rezende for plant identification; and the staff of the Base de Estudos do Pantanal (UFMS) for logistical support. Funds were provided by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) fellowship grant to VGNG; Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento do Ensino, Ciência e Tecnologia de MS (FUNDECT), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for financial support through the project “Padrões de diversidade da fauna e flora no Pantanal Sul Matogrossense” (521746/97); CNPq also provided research productivity fellowships to ACA (310999/2018-9), EF (484808/2013-3) and MS (302781/2016-1).

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  1. Instituto Nacional do Semiárido, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil

    Vanessa Gabrielle Nóbrega Gomes

  2. Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil

    Marlies Sazima

  3. Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Sinop, MT, Brazil

    Rafael Arruda

  4. Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

    Erich Fischer & Andréa Cardoso Araujo

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Gomes, V.G.N., Sazima, M., Arruda, R., Fischer, E., Araujo, A.C. (2021). Temporal Patterns of Pollination and Seed Dispersal in Capões of the Southern Pantanal. In: Damasceno-Junior, G.A., Pott, A. (eds) Flora and Vegetation of the Pantanal Wetland. Plant and Vegetation, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83375-6_14

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