Search results for "DISPERSION DE GRAINES"
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Impact of GMOs within cropping systems: towards a more systemic approach
2004
International audience
Le rôle écologique des bonobos : service écologique de dispersion de graine en forêt du Congo
2012
Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are threatened with extinction. They are the largest primates, and the only apes (except human), of the southern bank of the Congo Basin. Along with chimpanzees, they are our closest living relatives and are studied by anthropologists to include/understand our hominid origins; but what about their functional role in the forest? Would their disappearance have serious consequences for forest ecology? Answering this question is the aim of this new project, with several years of observations of a free-ranging habituated group of bonobos on the LuiKotale research station (DR Congo). In this tropical rainforest, the very great majority of plants need animals to reproduce an…