The Role of Seed Size in Dispersal by a Scatter-hoarding Rodent

By Patrick A. Jansen, M. Bartholomeus, Frans Bongers, J. Elzinga, J. Ouden, Sipke E. van Wieren. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. Hongmao Zhang
2. Zhibin Zhang
3. R. Bonal
4. A. Muñoz
5. Yu Chen
6. Zhishu Xiao
7. Yushan Wang
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Hongmao Zhang
2. Zhibin Zhang
3. Yu Chen
4. Zhishu Xiao
5. R. Bonal
6. A. Muñoz
7. O. Skarpaas
8. J. Bullock

Citations in the corpus

• Seed dispersal by spider monkeys and its importance in the maintenance of neotropical rain-forest diversity (2006, background): “…bats are also unlikely to be able to swallow and pass large seeds, although secondary dispersal by scatterhoarding rodents can be important for some largeseeded species (Hallwachs 1986, Jansen et al. 2002) in addition to altering the initial deposition pattern produced by primary dispersers.”
• Scatter hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory (2009, unknown): “All rights reserved. small seeds (e.g. Bossema 1979; Hurly & Robertson 1987; Forget et al. 1998; Jansen & Forget 2001; Jansen et al. 2002, 2004; Vander Wall 2003; Leaver 2004; but see Brewer 2001).”
• Measuring plant dispersal: an introduction to field methods and experimental design (2006, background): “These include animal behaviour – rodents may hoard seeds (Jansen et al. 2002), ants take them to the nest (Peakall and Beattie 1995) or birds deposit them in particular defaecation locations (Verdu and Garcia Fayos 1996) – or physical processes such as trapping of seeds by other plants (Bullock and ”
• Provenance Variation in Seed Morphometric Traits, Germination, and Seedling Growth of Cordia africana Lam (2006, background): “Evidence indicates that large seed size with fleshy edible fruits, such as that of C. africana, is one of the syndromes for endozoochorous modes of dispersal (Izhaki 2002; Jansen et al. 2002).”
• Spatial and temporal variation of seed predation and removal of sympatric large-seeded species in relation to innate seed traits in a subtropical forest, Southwest China (2006, unknown): “Logically, larger seeds have a greater nutritional value (Grubb and Burslem, 1998), and thus are more attractive to seed-caching rodents (Smith and Reichman, 1984; Vander Wall, 1995; Jansen et al., 2002).”
• Linking seed dispersal to cache protection strategies (2011, methodology): “This methodology is not considered to influence rodent foraging behaviour (Forget & Wenny 2005), and by using this procedure we were able to locate more than 95% of the removed acorns (for similar procedure see Forget 1990; Jansen et al. 2002; Muñoz & Bonal 2007, 2008a).”
• Are you strong enough to carry that seed? Seed size/body size ratios influence seed choices by rodents (2008, background): “…Mus spretus; seed dispersal; seed size; wood mouse Most small rodents are granivorous, and some species move and cache seeds for later consumption, thus acting as important seed dispersers (Vander Wall 1990; Jansen et al. 2002; Roth & Vander Wall 2005; Steele et al. 2006; Muñoz & Bonal 2007).”
• Effects of seed size on dispersal distance in five rodent-dispersed fagaceous species (2005, background): “There may exist an optimal seed size or size range for dispersal and scatter-hoarding by a given rodent species, since an animal can only handle seeds up to a certain size (Jansen et al., 2002; Jansen, 2003; Theimer, 2003).”
• Ethiopian church forests : opportunities and challenges for restoration (2004, background): “02-10% of the removed seeds were able to establish seedlings (Jansen et al., 2002; Hulme, 2002).”
• Differences of dispersal fitness of large and small acorns of Liaodong oak (Quercus liaotungensis) before and after seed caching by small rodents in a warm temperate forest, China (2008, result): “We want to test the two opposite hypothesis: (1) large acorns have lower predation and higher survival or seedling establishment (Jansen et al., 2002); and (2) large acorns have higher predation and lower survival or seedling establishment (Janzen, 1971).”