caa a22 4500 386380783 CHVBK 20180307112040.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266467400003850 doi S0266467400003850 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266467400003850 Lambert Frank Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2TN, Scotland Fig-eating by birds in a Malaysian lowland rain forest [Elektronische Daten] [Frank Lambert] Sixty bird species ate the figs of 29 Ficus taxa at a lowland forest site in Peninsular Malaysia. Although most bird-eaten figs were brightly coloured, four Ficus species produced dull-coloured ripe fruits. Whilst there was tremendous overlap in the sizes of figs eaten by different bird species, data presented show that the fig resource was partitioned by birds. Large birds were commoner visitors to large-fruited Ficus, but small birds tended to eat small figs. Within two avian genera, the Treron pigeons and Megalaima barbets, there was distinct partitioning of figs consumed according to fig size. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 birds nationallicence Ficus nationallicence figs nationallicence frugivory nationallicence Malaysia nationallicence Megalaima nationallicence rain forest nationallicence resource partitioning nationallicence seed-dispersal nationallicence Treron nationallicence Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-11), 401-412 0266-4674 5:4<401 1989 5 TRO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003850 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003850 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lambert Frank Department of Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2TN, Scotland NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/4(1989-11), 401-412 0266-4674 5:4<401 1989 5 TRO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge