Effects of tillage and irrigation in cereal fields on weed seed removal by seed predators

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National-scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators (2011, unknown): “Carabid beetles have been studied as potential natural enemies of weeds, through predation of weed seeds by omnivorous and granivorous species (Tooley & Brust 2002; Westerman et al. 2003;Honek et al. 2007; Baraibar et al. 2009).”
REVIEW: Ants as tools in sustainable agriculture (2015, background): “Lastly, weed control may be afforded by seed harvester ants Messor barbarus that remove up to approximately 80% of artificially placed weed seeds (Lolium multiflorum, Vicia villosa) in Spanish barley and wheat fields (Baraibar et al. 2009).”
The Role of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Weed Seed Consumption: A Review (2015, background): “In the tropics (Albert et al. 2005; Chauhan et al. 2010; Motzke et al. 2013), semiarid (Baraibar et al. 2009), and arid habitats (Hulme 1998), ants play an important role in seed feeding.”
Small mammals in agricultural landscapes: Opposing responses to farming practices and landscape complexity (2011, background): “Small mammals function as consumers of seeds, non-crop plants and insects (Baraibar et al., 2009; Ness and Morin, 2008), but they can also be agricultural pests of various crops (Brown et al.”