DO SMALL-SEEDED SPECIES HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL THROUGH SEED PREDATION THAN LARGE-SEEDED SPECIES?

By A. Moles, David I. Warton, M. Westoby. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

Seed predators limit plant recruitment in Neotropical savannas (2011, unknown): “Moles et al. 2003).”
Seed predation as a barrier to alien conifer invasions (2008, background): “Our study suggests that seed size can also be related to chances of seed predation, because seed size is known to affect preference by seed predators (Reader 1993; but see Moles et al. 2003, Moles and Westoby 2003).”
Seed size and plant strategy across the whole life cycle (2006, methodology): “We were concerned that Moles et al.’s data might be non-representative (Moles et al. 2003b), so we also performed an analysis on all data except those from the Moles et al. study.”
Application of systematic review methodology to food and feed safety assessments to support decision making. (2010, unknown): “There is some evidence that publication bias is also present in food safety or feed science (Moles et al., 2003; Nielen et al., 2006; Berteaux et al., 2007; Duffield et al., 2008; Haxton and Findlay, 2008; Ceballos et al., 2009).”
The relationship between seed mass and mean time to germination for 1037 tree species across five tropical forests (2009, background): “The relationship between seed predation and seed mass is not robustly established (Moles et al. 2003) and studies evaluating the relationship between seed mass and seed coat thickness/hardness are also scarce (Fenner 1983).”
Flowering and fruiting phenologies of seasonal and aseasonal neotropical forests: the role of annual changes in irradiance (2007, background): “…traits might combine to permit germination at optimal times while minimizing the collective impact of predators and pathogens which attack developing fruit, seeds in the soil seed bank, and seedlings comprising a seedling bank (Garwood 1989, Greig 1993, Maron & Gardner 2000, Moles et al. 2003).”
Response and effect traits of arable weeds in agro‐ecosystems: a review of current knowledge (2017, background): “The manipulation of granivorous species to optimise weed management strategies is a challenge that needs an understanding of the complex relationship between weed seed traits and feeding behaviour of seed predators (Moles et al., 2003; Wang & Chen, 2009).”
Seed mass, seedling size and neotropical tree seedling establishment (2005, background): “…occur for smaller-seeded species via insect vectors (e.g. Hughes & Westoby 1992), the degree to which this removal influences the seed-mass–establishment relationship defined when these seeds are assumed to be dead (e.g. Moles et al. 2003) is an important subject that requires further observation.”