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 …

Twenty years ago, Dominy and colleagues published “The sensory ecology of primate food
perception,” an impactful review that brought new perspectives to understanding primate …

The adaptive significance of fruit colour has been investigated for over a century. While
colour can fulfil various functions, the most commonly tested hypothesis is that it has evolved …

Reproduction in many angiosperms depends on attracting animals that provide pollination
and seed dispersal services. Flowers and fleshy fruits present various features that can …

Determining what factors affect species occurrence is vital to the study of primate
biogeography. We investigated the metapopulation dynamics of a lemur community …

Seed dispersal benefits plants and frugivores, and potentially drives co‐evolution, with
consequences to diversification evidenced for, eg, primates. Evidence for macro …

Fruit scent plays an important role in human preference and has thus been studied primarily
in the context of agricultural science. In wild species, fruit scent has long been speculated to …

Community trait assembly, the formation of distributions of phenotypic characteristics across
coexisting species, can occur via two main processes: filtering of trait distributions from the …

Aim For tens of millions of years, herbivorous megafauna were abundant across the globe,
fulfilling important ecological roles including seed dispersal. Megafruits are very large fruits …

The surfaces of animals, plants and abiotic structures are not only important for organismal
survival, but they have also inspired countless biomimetic and industrial applications …