A ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta), a key agent of seed dispersal in southern Madagascar.

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The ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) serves as a key agent of seed dispersal in southern Madagascar, where the landscape is heavily fragmented by agriculture and remaining forest patches are protected by local taboos. Lemurs eat fruit and disperse the seeds as they move along the ground between forest patches, thereby providing an important ecological service within a landscape that is strongly impacted by humans. In such heavily fragmented agricultural landscapes, small patches of forest may be essential for maintaining ecosystem services. This photograph originally appeared on the cover of Ecological Applications (16:2) in April of 2006.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Photograph
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Format	jpeg
Temporal and geographic description	Southern Madagascar, Africa.
Ecological Core Concept	Interspecific interactions -- Mutualism, symbiosis, and commensalism Interspecific interactions Human impacts -- Habitat destruction Human impacts
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	This photograph can be used to illustrate a lemur, a fruit-eating mammal, or an important agent of seed dispersal.
Keywords	Agriculture, fragmentation, habitat fragmentation, seed dispersal, forest, forest patch, matrix, fruit, ecosystem service
Key taxa	ring-tailed lemur, Lemur catta
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Kenneth Klemow Jakob Jundberg
Primary Author Affiliation	Department of Systems Ecology, Stokholm University Biology Program, Wilkes University
Primary Author email	jakob@system.ecology.su.se , kklemow@wilkes.edu
Rights	Copyright 2006 by the Ecological Society of America.
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2008-04-09

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