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Trade-offs between the risks of predation and starvation in subtropical granivorous finches [PDF]
, 2007 Animal community structures, life histories and individual foraging behaviour are all an outcome of a trade-off between competition for resources (and thus the risk of starvation) and survival (and thus the risk of predation).
Brandt, Miriam J.
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The fear diet: Risk, refuge, and biological control by omnivorous weed seed predators
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 Weed seed biocontrol by omnivorous mice and insects can limit weed seedbanks, but this ecosystem service can be difficult to predict given the broad diet breadth of seed predators and their potential for intraguild predation.
Ivy V. Widick +4 more
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Generalist predators disrupt parasitoid aphid control by direct and coincidental intraguild predation [PDF]
, 2011 Generalist predators and parasitoids are considered to be important regulators of aphids. The former not only feed on these pests, but might also consume parasitoids at all stages of development.
D. Sint +14 more
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, 2021 Rainforest fragmentation has large impacts on ground-active vertebrates, including granivorous mammals (e.g., rodents), and birds. We tested for differences in community-wide patterns of interference with seeds of rainforest trees, between fragments and ...
Catterall, CP, Palmer, GJ
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023 Native seeds broadcast for restoration are often consumed by predators before they can germinate. However, it is unclear how the composition of a seed mix affects seed predation.
Benny J. Drescher, Madeline Nolan
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An omnivorous mesopredator modifies predation of omnivore‐dispersed seeds
Ecosphere, 2021 Post‐dispersal seed predation is an important determinant of plant recruitment. Although many plant species are dispersed following consumption by omnivorous vertebrates, the potential for these dispersal agents to indirectly affect seed fate by ...
Savannah L. Bartel, John L. Orrock
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 IntroductionFruit wings serve various ecological functions, including facilitating wind dispersal, providing physical protection to seeds, and regulating seed germination.
Kaiqing Xie +6 more
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Tracking Seed Fates of Tropical Tree Species: Evidence for Seed Caching in a Tropical Forest in North-East India. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Rodents affect the post-dispersal fate of seeds by acting either as on-site seed predators or as secondary dispersers when they scatter-hoard seeds. The tropical forests of north-east India harbour a high diversity of little-studied terrestrial murid and
Swati Sidhu, Aparajita Datta
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Empty seeds are not always bad: simultaneous effect of seed emptiness and masting on animal seed predation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Seed masting and production of empty seeds have often been considered independently as different strategies to reduce seed predation by animals. Here, we integrate both phenomena within the whole assemblage of seed predators (both pre and post-dispersal)
Ramón Perea, Martin Venturas, Luis Gil
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Biotic resistance to plant invasion in grassland: Does seed predation increase with resident plant diversity? [PDF]
, 2014 Seed predation impacts heavily on plant populations and community composition in grasslands. In particular, generalist seed predators may contribute to biotic resistance, i.e.
Stampfli, Andreas +3 more
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