Rodents change acorn dispersal behaviour in response to ungulate presence

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Are you strong enough to carry that seed? Seed size/body size ratios influence seed choices by rodents (2008, background): “…have obvious fitness consequences for the plant and for seed-size evolution, as by being dispersed the seeds avoid the predation risk under the mother plant and may be carried to safe microsites for germination and seedling growth (Herrera 2002; Pulido & Dı́az 2005; Muñoz & Bonal 2007).”
Linking seed dispersal to cache protection strategies (2011, methodology): “Both species are nocturnal and are prominent acorn predators, but they disperse and cache them as well (Muñoz & Bonal 2007, 2008b).”