Frugivores & Seed Dispersal Symposium

FSD2024


2024-08-04 (Sunday)

  Jacarandá room
15:00 15:00 - 17:00

Registration opens

17:00 17:00 - 18:00

Opening Remarks and Welcome

Foto: ELIANA CAZETTA

ELIANA CAZETTA

ILHEUS / BA Speaker
Foto: MAURO GALETTI

MAURO GALETTI

INDAIATUBA / SP Speaker
18:00 18:00 - 19:00

Opening Plenary: The biodiversity of plant-frugivore interactions: types, functions, and consequences of their extinctions

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PEDRO JORDANO

SPAIN Speaker

Pairwise plant-animal mutualistic interactions build up into mega-diverse networks involving dozens of interacting species, being the most generalized among free-living species. These mutualisms consist of food provisioning by plants and, their counterpart, plant propagule (seeds) movement by the animals, being crucial for the natural vegetation regeneration in many ecosystems, yet we are far from understanding which part of this enormous interaction biodiversity is needed for their maintenance.


19:00 19:00 - 19:30

Tribute

19:30 19:30 - 22:00

Opening reception

22:00

2024-08-05 (Monday)

  Jacarandá room Jequitibá room
08:15 08:15 - 09:00

Plenary:

Foto: ALEXANDRA PIRES

ALEXANDRA PIRES

RIO DE JANEIRO / RJ Speaker
09:00 09:00 - 10:30

Symposium 1: Seed Dispersal and Ecosystem Regeneration: frugivores at the service of restoration ecology

09:00 - 09:15
The role of seed dispersal in regeneration in open ecosystems

Foto: MARIA FERNANDA GODOI

MARIA FERNANDA GODOI

BELO HORIZONTE / MG Speaker

09:15 - 09:30
What does phylogenetic congruence tell us about evolutionary history and how can we apply this knowledge to restoration ecology?

Foto: LISIEUX FUZESSY

LISIEUX FUZESSY

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

09:30 - 09:45
The effects of plant composition in forest nuclei experimentally set on pastures on bird-plant interactions and seed rain

Foto: MARCO AURELIO PIZO

MARCO AURELIO PIZO

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

09:45 - 10:00
Exploring plant-animal interactions in forests under construction: a comprehensive perspective

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DEBORA ROTHER

SAO CARLOS / SP Speaker

10:00 - 10:15
Frugivory networks in naturally regenerating Atlantic forests

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ROBERT TIMMERS

NETHERLANDS Speaker

10:15 - 10:30
Questions and discussion

09:00 - 10:30

Oral presentations

10:30 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 11:00 - 12:30

Symposium 2: Linking movement to frugivory and seed dispersal

11:00 - 11:15
Drivers and functions of animal movement in biotic seed dispersal

Foto: NOELLE BECKMAN

NOELLE BECKMAN

UNITED STATES Speaker

11:15 - 11:30
Modelling seed retention using a joint species approach

Foto: JUAN MANUEL MORALES

JUAN MANUEL MORALES

UNITED KINGDOM Speaker

11:30 - 11:45
Foraging decisions of a neotropical frugivorous-faunivorous primate in a complex environment

Foto: FELIPE BUFALO

FELIPE BUFALO

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

11:45 - 12:00
Disentangling the effect of resources and patch-scale variables on movement and seed dispersal of a forest

Foto: EDUARDO ZANETTE

EDUARDO ZANETTE

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

12:00 - 12:15
Influence of movement on seed dispersal by a Neotropical primate living in the Anthropocene

Foto: ANAID CARDENAS-NAVARRETE

ANAID CARDENAS-NAVARRETE

UNITED STATES Speaker
11:00 - 12:30

Oral presentations

12:30 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 3: Landscape Changes: Impacts on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal Dynamics

14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 4: Seed dispersal mediated by social animals

14:00 - 14:15
Do all howler monkey species create a latrine effect under their sleeping sites? Probably not

Foto: ELLEN ANDRESEN

ELLEN ANDRESEN

MEXICO Speaker

14:15 - 14:30
The niche construction hypothesis for the evolution of lekking in frugivorous birds

Foto: H. LUKE ANDERSON

H. LUKE ANDERSON

UNITED STATES Speaker

14:30 - 14:45
Effect of group structure on endo- and epizoochory mediated by ungulates – an experimental approach

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CHRISTOPHE BALTZINGER

FRANCE Speaker

14:45 - 15:30
Questions and discussion

15:30 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 16:00 - 17:00

Oral presentations

16:00 - 17:00

Oral presentations

17:00 17:00 - 17:45

Plenary:

Foto: BO WANG

BO WANG

CHINA Speaker
17:45

2024-08-06 (Tuesday)

  Jacarandá room Jequitibá room
08:15 08:15 - 09:00

Plenary: Seed dispersal by frugivores through the matrix of fragmented landscapes

Foto: JUAN PEDRO GONZALEZ-VARO

JUAN PEDRO GONZALEZ-VARO

SPAIN Speaker

Most of the Earth’s ice-free terrestrial land is covered by anthropogenic habitats. Forests typically persist as patches embedded in a matrix of agricultural fields, rangelands, industrial areas, and urban settlements. Since most woody plants are dispersed by frugivorous animals, frugivores play a central role in the dynamics of forest plant communities in fragmented landscapes. Frugivore movements through the matrix are needed for both plant connectivity among forest patches and plant colonization of deforested areas. But, how much do frugivore communities change from forest to open anthropogenic habitats? Are changes mainly driven by the loss or by the replacement of frugivore species in the matrix? Do changes affect traits that are less advantageous in open habitats? Do changes in frugivore communities ultimately influence the composition and traits of the plants dispersed through the matrix?


09:00 09:00 - 10:30

Symposium 5: Fruit-animal trait matching as drivers of seed dispersal

09:00 - 09:15
Fruit scent: an evolved signal for seed dispersal?

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OMER NEVO

GERMANY Speaker

09:15 - 09:30
A Forest in the Making: Intraspecific Variation Affecting the Trait Matching in Animal-Plant Interaction and Shaping a Community.

Foto: GUILHERME GONZALEZ CANASSA

GUILHERME GONZALEZ CANASSA

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

09:30 - 09:45
Unveiling the Scent Evolution in Plants and Seed dispersers

Foto: LINH - NGUYEN

LINH - NGUYEN

GERMANY Speaker

09:45 - 10:00
Fruit and morphologic digestive traits as drivers of frugivory by birds

Foto: ANA CRISTINA CRESTANI

ANA CRISTINA CRESTANI

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

10:00 - 10:15
Can fruit ripening patterns provide insight into seed dispersal syndromes? A study using the Brazilian Cerrado as a model system.

Foto: MARIA APPEL

MARIA APPEL

PORTO ALEGRE / RS Speaker

10:15 - 10:30
Phenotypic profile of animal-dispersed plants in a chronosequence of semideciduous Atlantic forest remnants

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WILLIAN SIMIONI

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker
09:00 - 10:30

Oral presentations

10:30 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 11:00 - 12:30

Symposium 6: Frugivory and seed dispersal across island ecosystems

11:00 - 11:15
Frugivory and Seed Dispersal across Island Ecosystems

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FERNANDO GONÇALVES

MARILIA / SP Speaker

11:15 - 11:30
Global Patterns of Fruit Removal: Insights from Island Biogeography, Latitude, and Human Impact

Foto: MAURO GALETTI

MAURO GALETTI

INDAIATUBA / SP Speaker

11:30 - 11:45
Frugivory and seed dispersal in the Caribbean islands. A closer look at the Lesser Antilles.

Foto: MAXIMILIAN VOLLSTADT

MAXIMILIAN VOLLSTADT

SPAIN Speaker

11:45 - 12:00
Seed dispersal interactions in novel ecosystems in Hawaii: a glimpse into the future of Earth's ecosystems?

Foto: JEF VIZENTIN-BUGONI

JEF VIZENTIN-BUGONI

PELOTAS / RS Speaker

12:00 - 12:15
Applied frugivory and seed dispersal to restoration of agroecosystems under desertification in the Sicilian archipelago

Foto: RAFAEL DA SILVEIRA BUENO

RAFAEL DA SILVEIRA BUENO

MOGI GUAÇU / SP Speaker

12:15 - 12:30
Frugivore decay in Amazonian land-bridge islands

Foto: MAIRA BENCHIMOL

MAIRA BENCHIMOL

ILHEUS / BA Speaker
11:00 - 12:30

Oral presentations

12:30 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 7: Mistletoe seed dispersal as a key process for community structuring: challenges and conservation opportunities

14:00 - 14:15
Hyperparasitism interactions between forest mistletoes due to a generalist frugivore marsupial

Foto: JAVIERA VILLARROEL

JAVIERA VILLARROEL

CHILE Speaker

14:15 - 14:30
Morphological and physiological mechanisms behind the specialization of mistletoe fruits and euphonias

Foto: MARCO AURELIO PIZO

MARCO AURELIO PIZO

RIO CLARO / SP Speaker

14:30 - 14:45
Mistletoes as engines of frugivore diversification: evidence from South American songbirds

Foto: DAVID M WATSON

DAVID M WATSON

AUSTRALIA Speaker

14:45 - 15:00
A cryptic mistletoe as a keystone resource for frugivores in high-mountain forests

Foto: FRANCISCO FONTURBEL

FRANCISCO FONTURBEL

CHILE Speaker

15:00 - 15:30
Questions and discussion

14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 8: Seed dispersal and plant regeneration out of the forest

14:00 - 14:15
Plant and frugivore species characteristics drive seed dispersal effectiveness in a hyper-diverse Neotropical savanna

Foto: MARIANA CAMPAGNOLI

MARIANA CAMPAGNOLI

SAO CARLOS / SP Speaker

14:15 - 14:30
Overlooked stories beneath the rocks: Rodents as Cactus seed dispersers in the Campo Rupestre ecosystem

Foto: TIAGO VINICIUS FERNANDES

TIAGO VINICIUS FERNANDES

BELO HORIZONTE / MG Speaker

14:30 - 14:45
The lunar luminosity and spatial scale alter the landscape of fear for rodent seed predation in a neotropical savanna

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EMERSON VIEIRA

BRASILIA / DF Speaker

14:45 - 15:00
The far side of canids: frugivory and seed dispersal by the Maned-wolf and Crab-eating fox in the Cerrado

Foto: RENATO D'ELIA FELICIANO

RENATO D'ELIA FELICIANO

CAMPINAS / SP Speaker

15:00 - 15:15
An overview of seed dispersal studies in open ecosystems: challenges and opportunities

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FERNANDO SILVEIRA

BELO HORIZONTE / MG Speaker

15:15 - 15:30
Questions and discussion

15:30 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 16:00 - 17:00

Oral presentations

16:00 - 17:00

Oral presentations

17:00 17:00 - 17:45

Plenary: Frugivory and Seed Dispersal in Madagascar’s rainforest ecosystems

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ONJA RAZAFINDRATSIMA

UNITED STATES Speaker
17:45

2024-08-07 (Wednesday)

  Jacarandá room Jequitibá room
08:15 08:15 - 09:00

Plenary: Stomatochory is important too! Why we should investigate this major form of non-endozoochoric seed dispersal

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KIM MCCONKEY

HYDERABAD Speaker

Many stomatochoric dispersers are dominant members of frugivore communities and can be effective dispersers of seeds. A more robust understanding of community-wide patterns of seed dispersal can be gained if stomatochoric dispersers are considered as integrated and important members of the frugivore community.


09:00 09:00 - 10:30

Symposium 9: Frugivory and seed dispersal during animal migration in a globally-changing world

09:00 - 10:30

Oral presentations

10:30 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 11:00 - 12:30

Symposium 10: Functional biogeography of frugivores and seed dispersers

11:00 - 11:15
The impact of habitat loss and wildlife trade on the functional diversity of avian frugivores

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JUNYING LIM

SINGAPORE Speaker

11:15 - 11:30
Megafaunal seed dispersal syndrome: Malagasy baobabs as a model in island ecosystems

Foto: SEHENO ANDRIANTSARALAZA

SEHENO ANDRIANTSARALAZA

MADAGASCAR Speaker

11:30 - 11:45
Global frugivore-fruit trait matching decreases towards the tropics

Foto: XIANFENG YI

XIANFENG YI

CHINA Speaker

11:45 - 12:00
Using machine learning methods to infer trait matching and predict plant-frugivore interactions in tropical Asia

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HANCI LIANG

SINGAPORE Speaker

12:00 - 12:30
Questions and discussion

11:00 - 12:30

Oral presentations

12:30 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 11: Long-term fruit phenology and the maintenance and stability of plant-frugivore interactions in the Anthropocene

14:00 - 15:30

Symposium 12: Macroecological Perspective on Frugivore Conservation

15:30 15:30 - 18:00

Coffee break + poster session

15:30 - 18:00

Coffee break + poster session

17:00 17:00 - 18:00

Book launch and autograph session - Um naturalista no Antropoceno

Foto: MAURO GALETTI

MAURO GALETTI

INDAIATUBA / SP Speaker
18:00

2024-08-08 (Thursday)

  Jacarandá room Jequitibá room
08:15 08:15 - 09:00

Plenary: Seed dispersal and its consequences for the seedscape

Foto: NOELLE BECKMAN

NOELLE BECKMAN

UNITED STATES Speaker

Seed dispersal underlies important plant ecological and evolutionary processes, including gene flow, population dynamics, and diversity. While seed dispersal is a complex and context-dependent process, I emphasize that we can further our understanding of seed dispersal’s contribution to plant population dynamics and ecosystem functions using multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. I use interdisciplinary approaches, spanning from mathematics to metabolomics, to study the causes and consequences of seed dispersal . I will provide an overview of emergent unifying frameworks currently used to study dispersal and how their integration can provide a more mechanistic understanding of seed dispersal. I discuss examples from on-going work, for example, investigating the interplay between fruits and their interacting partners for plant chemical diversity and population-level consequences of seed dispersal for plants varying in a range of traits. With a mechanistic understanding of seed dispersal, we will better understand the evolutionary ecology of seed dispersal, the influence of global change on seed dispersal processes, and potential cascading effects to ecosystems.


09:00 09:00 - 10:30

Symposium 13: Harnessing nucleic acids to unveil the ecology and evolution of frugivory and seed dispersal

09:00 - 10:30

Oral presentations

10:30 10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 11:00 - 12:30

Symposium 14: Plant-Frugivore networks across scales

11:00 - 12:30

Oral presentations

12:30 12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 14:00 - 15:30

Oral presentations

14:00 - 15:30

Oral presentations

15:30 15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 16:00 - 17:00

Closing plenary: Rainforest ecological health status: How to take its "temperature" from the ground to the canopy?

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PIERRE-MICHEL FORGET

FRANCE Speaker
17:00 17:00 - 18:00

Awards and publicity for next event

18:00 18:00 - 20:00

Closing ceremony

20:00