CACHE MANAGEMENT BY SMALL MAMMALS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ACORN-EMBRYO EXCISION

By M. Steele, G. Turner, P. D. Smallwood, J. O. Wolff, J. Radillo. 2001

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SEED MASS AND MAST SEEDING ENHANCE DISPERSAL BY A NEOTROPICAL SCATTER-HOARDING RODENT (2004, background): “Intra-specific variation in seed size affects scatterhoarding behaviour of an Australian tropical rain forest rodent.”
Do scatter hoarders trade off increased predation risks for lower rates of cache pilferage (2014, methodology): “Our previous studies demonstrating selective dispersal and longer dispersal distances of larger seeded red oaks over other oak species (Steele et al. 2001; Moore et al. 2007), coupled with this study,”
The Ultimate Basis of the Caching Preferences of Rodents, and the Oak-Dispersal Syndrome: Tannins, Insects, and Seed Germination1 (2001, unknown): “crassifolia acorns (Steele et al., 2001a).”
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): “Some squirrels also prevented germination of acorns by excising the embryo before caching the seeds (Steele et al. 2001).”
Rodent scatterhoarders as conditional mutualists. (2005, background): “…to A4838:AMA:Forget:First Proofs: 20-Jul-04 17 0 20 40 60 80 100 P ro p o rt io n o f s e e d c ro p X Y Seed : scatterhoarder ratio allow them to germinate (Hulme, 2002) or when scatterhoarders excise embryos from cached seeds to prevent them from germinating (Fox, 1982; Steele et al., 2001).”