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Mesoamericana 13 (1) Agosto de 2009 1975), Tringa melanoleuca (Greater-yellow Legs) (Elphick and Tibbitts, 1998), Tringa flavipes (Lesser-yellow Legs) (Tibbitts and Moskoff, 1999), Tringa semipalmata (Willet) (Moskoff, 1995), Porphyrio martinica (Purple Gallinule) (West and Hess, 2002) and Gallinula chloropus (Common Moorhen) (Bannor and Kiviat, 2002), agree in stating that R. maritima seeds seem not to be an important food item in its diet. For attaining a deeper insight on the actual role of migrant waterfowls as effective dispersers of R. martima seeds in Cayo Coco and neighboring islet wetlands, the feeding ecology of dabbling ducks must be addressed by analysing stomach contents (dietary preference) and LITERATURE CITED Academia de Ciencias de Cuba (ACC) e Instituto Cubano de Geodesia y Cartografía (ICGC). 1990. Estudio de los grupos insulares y zonas litorales del archipiélago cubano con fines turísticos. Cayos: Coco, Guillermo y Paredón Grande. Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, CITMA. Editorial Científico-Técnica. Cuba. Agami, M. and Y. Waisel. 1986. The role of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) in the distribution and germination of seeds of the submerged hydrophyte Najas marina L. Oecologia 68: 473-475. Allen, R. P. 1956. The flamingoes: their life history and survival, with special reference to the American or West Indian flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber). National Audubon Society, New York. USA. Austin, H. and S. Austin. 1971. The feeding habits of some juvenile marine fishes from the mangroves in western Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 11: 171-178. Baldassarre, G. A. and E. G. Bolen. 1994. Waterfowl ecology and management. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, USA. Bannor, B. K. and E. Kiviat. 2002. Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), the birds of North America online. In Poole, A. (ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North A m e r i c a O n l i n e : http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/685. Bourn, W. S. and C. Cottam. 1950. Some biological effects of ditching tidewater marshes. U. S. Fish Wildl. Serv., Res. Rep. 19. Bull. 205. Campbell, J. W. 1946. The food of the wigeon and brent goose. British Birds 39: 194-200, 226-232. 33 subsequent experiments aimed at testing the survival rate of retrieved propagules under the abiotic and biotic conditions of the new possible habitat. On the other hand, more scientific scrutiny for determining the actual distribution of the angiosperm in the wetlands of Cuba also demands attention. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We would like to thank Jill Key and Vicente O. Rodríguez and who patiently revised the versions of the draft. Valuable and timely suggestions and comments were made by Adán Zúñiga Ríos, Eneider Pérez Mena who also improved the writing. Carr, W. E. S. and C. A. Adams. 1973. Food habits of juvenile marine fishes occupying seagrass beds in the estuarine zone near Crystal River, Florida. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 102: 511-540. Chamberlain, J. L. 1959. Gulf Coast marsh vegetation as food of wintering waterfowl. Journal Wildlife Management 23: 97-102. Charalambidou, I., L. Santamaría and O. Langevoord. 2003. Effect of ingestion by five avian dispersers on the retention time, retrieval and germination of Ruppia maritima seeds. Functional Ecology 17(6): 747-753. Congdon, R. A. and A. J. McComb. 1981. The vegetation of the Blackwood River Estuary, Southwest Australia. Journal of Ecology 69: 1-16. Copeland, B. J., K. R. Tenore and D. B. Horton. 1974. Oligohaline regime. p. 315-357 In: Odum, H. T., B. J. Copeland and E. A. McMahan (eds.). Coastal ecosystems of the United States II. Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C. USA. Cramp, S. and K. E. L. Simmons. 1977. Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. USA. Crome, F. H. J. 1985. An experimental investigation of filter-feeding on zooplankton by some specialized waterfowl. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 849-862. Darnell, R. M. 1958. Food habits of fishes and larger invertebrates of Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana, an estuarine community. Publ. Inst. Mar. Sci. Univ. Tex. 5: 353-416. den Hartog, C. and J. Kuo. 2006. Taxonomy and biogeography of seagrasses. USA. p. 1-23. Edwards, R. R. C. 1978. Ecology of a coastal lagoon
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