Assessing the benefits of frugivory for seed germination: the importance of the deinhibition effect

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Patterns of Seed Dispersal and Dispersal Failure in a Hawaiian Dry Forest Having Only Introduced Birds (2010, background): “For those seeds that escape predation, pulp on seeds or lack of scarification may reduce germination (Fukui 1995, Yagihashi et al. 1998, Traveset & Verdú 2002, Robertson et al. 2006).”
The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests (2007, background): “This change will be slow in botanically intact areas of “empty forest,” since individual plants can live for decades or centuries and populations of some species may persist longer in situ without seed dispersal (Robertson et al. 2006).”
Mutualisms with the wreckage of an avifauna: the status of bird pollination and fruit- dispersal in New Zealand (2010, methodology): “However, the lack of germination from whole fruit was later found to be an artefact of using Petri dishes for the germination trials (Robertson et al. 2006), presumably because germination inhibitors cannot leach away in a Petri dish.”