Effects of mast seeding and rodent abundance on seed predation and dispersal by rodents in Prunus armeniaca (Rosaceae)

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Plant Parentage, Pollination, and Dispersal: How DNA Microsatellites Have Altered the Landscape (2010, background): “The number of dispersed seeds that survive is typically extremely low and the recovery of these few of perhaps thousands of marked seeds is often challenging (Jensen and Nielsen, 1986; Jorge and Howe, 2009; Li and Zhang, 2007; Sork, 1983, 1984; Wenny, 2000).”
What defines mast seeding? Spatio‐temporal patterns of cone production by whitebark pine (2011, background): “…of pollination (Smith, Hamrick & Kramer 1990; Kelly, Hart & Allen 2001; Kelly & Sork 2002; Crone & Lesica 2006), increased attraction of seed dispersers (Tomback 1982; Norton & Kelly 1988; Li & Zhang 2007) and reduced seed predation (Crawley & Long 1995; Curran & Leighton 2000; Sun et al. 2007).”
Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: A review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration (2016, background): “Rodents dispersing Prunus armeniaca in China, for example, increased the proportion of seeds that were scatter-hoarded rather than placed in a single larder during a mast year (Li and Zhang 2007).”