Modeling the costs and benefits of seed scatterhoarding to plants

Many plants interact with scatterhoarding animals as mutualists (seed dispersers) and antagonists (seed predators) simultaneously, but the net effects of scatterhoarding animals are rarely measured. In seed‐dispersal mutualisms, plant benefits (recruitment) received from dispersal agents should outw...

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Main Authors: Zhishu Xiao, Charles J. Krebs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-04-01
Series:Ecosphere
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00438.1