Consistencies in post-dispersal seed predation of temperate fleshy-fruited species among seasons, years and sites

Functional Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 683-690

  Kollmann, J ^a   Coomes, D A ^b   White, S M ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fleshy fruited shrubs; Regeneration; Rodents; Seed traits; Survival of seeds

Indexed keywords

FOOD PREFERENCE; GRANIVORY; SEED PREDATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS FLAVICOLLIS; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; AVES; BERBERIS; BERBERIS VULGARIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CORNUS; CORNUS SANGUINEA; CRATAEGUS; EUONYMUS; EUONYMUS EUROPAEUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; RODENTIA; SAMBUCUS NIGRA;

EID: 0031695994     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1998.00239.x     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Abbott, H.G. & Quink, T.F. (1970) Ecology of eastern white pine seed caches made by small forest mammals. Ecology 51, 271-278.
2. Abramsky, Z. (1983) Experiments on seed predation by rodents and ants in the Israeli desert. Oecologia 57, 328-332.
3. Andersen, A.N. (1989) How important is seed predation to recruitment in stable populations of long-lived perennials? Oecologia 81, 310-315.
4. Brown, J.H. & Heske, E.G. (1990) Control of a desert-grass-land transition by a keystone rodent guild. Science 250, 1705-1707.
5. Cooper, M.R. & Johnson, A.W. (1984) Poisonous Plants in Britain and their Effect on Animals and Man. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London.
6. Crawley, M.J. (1993) GUM for Ecologists. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
7. Davidson, D.W. (1993) The effects of herbivory and granivory on terrestrial plant succession. Oikos 68, 23-35.
8. De Steven, D. (1991) Experiments on mechanisms of tree establishment in old-field succession: seedling emergence. Ecology 72, 1066-1075.
9. Flowerdew, J. (1993) Mice and Voles. Whittet Books, London.
10. Gill, D.S. & Marks, P.L. (1991) Tree and shrub seedling colonization of old fields in central New York. Ecological Monographs 61, 183-205.
11. Kerley, G.I.H. & Erasmus, T. (1991) What do mice select for in seeds? Oecologia 86, 261-267.
12. Kikkawa, J. (1964) Movement, activity and distribution of the small rodents Clethrionomys glareolus and Apodemus sylvaticus in forest. Journal of Animal Ecology 33, 259-299.
13. Kollmann, J. (1994) Ausbreitungsökologie endozoochorer Gehölzarten. Veröffentlichungen Projekt 'Angewandte Ökologie' 9, 1-212.
14. Vickery, W.L. (1984) Optimal diet models and rodent food consumption. Animal Behaviour 32, 340-348.
15. Watts, C.H.S. (1968) The foods eaten by wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) in Wytham Woods, Berkshire. Journal of Animal Ecology 37, 25-41.
16. Whelan, C.J., Willson, M.F., Tuma, C.A. & Souza-Pinto, I. (1990) Spatial and temporal patterns of postdispersal seed predation. Canadian Journal of Botany 69, 428-436.
17. Willson, M.F. & Whelan, C.J. (1990) Variation in postdispersal survival of vertebrate-dispersed seeds: effects of density, habitat, location, season, and species. Oikos 57, 191-198.