To assess whether a tree had fruited, we looked for fruit in the canopy.
Plants <5 cm only flowered and fruited in rare cases, whereas almost all plants > 25 cm produced fruits in each of the three years.
A higher proportion of fruits was consumed at trees that fruited longer, and elephants appeared to concentrate foraging in areas with many fruiting trees.
If inflorescences fruited, the numbers of fruits and aborted fruits were counted.
The four trees had fruit in 1993, but only one (the same tree) fruited in 1994, 1995 and 1996.
Of 393 adults (diameter at breast height (dbh) > 30 cm) in a 52-ha area, 143 (36.4%) individuals fruited.
Growing pepper in mixtures modified its phenology, while intercropped pepper also flowered and fruited 5-10 days earlier than the sole crop.
Overall, a greater number of species fruited during the rainy season.
