Quantifying the outcome of plant-granivore interactions

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-27

  Zwolak, Rafal ^a   Crone, Elizabeth E ^b,c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEST COMPETITION; GRANIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

RODENTIA;

EID: 84355162860     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19849.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Agraval A. A. et al. 2007. Filling key gaps in population and community ecology.- Front. Ecol. Environ. 5: 145-152.
2. Asquith N. M. et al. 1999. The fruits the agouti ate: Hymenaeacourbaril seed fate when its disperser is absent. J. Trop. Ecol. 15: 229-235.
3. Beck M. J. and Vander Wall S. B. 2010. Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents in arid environments.- J. Ecol. 98: 1300-1309.
4. Borchert M. 2006. Seed fate of Marahmacrocarpus (Cucurbitaceae) following fire: do seedlings recruit from rodent burrows? Ecol. Res. 21: 641-650.
5. Borchert M. et al. 2003. Early postfire seed dispersal, seedling establishment and seedling mortality of Pinus coulteri (D. Don) in central coastal California, USA. Plant Ecol. 168: 207-220.
6. Brewer S. W. and Webb M. A. H. 2001. Ignorant seed predators and factors affecting the seed survival of a tropical palm. Oikos 93: 32-41.
7. Briggs J. S. et al. 2009. Forest rodents provide directed dispersal of Jeffrey pine seeds. Ecology 90: 675-687.
8. Bronstein J. L. 1994. Conditional outcomes in mutualistic interactions. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9: 214-217.
9. Chamberlain S. A. and Holland J. N. 2009. Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant-plant protection mutualisms. Ecology 90: 2384-2392.
10. Chambers J. C. 2001. Pinus monophylla establishment in an expanding Pinus-Juniperus woodland: environmental conditions, facilitation and interacting factors. J. Veg. Sci. 12: 27-40.
11. Clark C. J. et al. 2007. Are plant populations seed limited? A critique and meta-analysis of seed addition experiments. Am. Nat. 170: 128-142.
12. Comita L. S. et al. 2010. Asymmetric density dependence shapes species abundances in a tropical tree community. Science 329: 330-332.
13. den Ouden J. et al. 2005. Jays, mice and oaks: predation and dispersal of Quercus robur and Q. petraea in northwestern Europe. - In: Forget P. M. et al. (eds), Seed fate. Predation, dispersal and seedling establishment. CABI Publishing, pp. 223-239.
14. Forget P. M. and Wenny D. 2005. How to elucidate seed fate? A review of methods used to study seed removal and secondary seed dispersal. - In: Forget P. M. et al. (eds), Seed fate. Predation, dispersal and seedling establishment. CABI Publishing, pp. 379-393.
15. Garcia D. et al. 2002. Differential effects of acorn burial and litter cover on Quercus rubra recruitment at the limit of its range in eastern North America. Can. J. Bot. 80: 1115-1120.
16. Goheen J. R. et al. 2010. Large herbivores facilitate savanna tree establishment via diverse and indirect pathways. J. Anim. Ecol. 79: 372-382.
17. Gómez J. M. et al. 2003. Impact of vertebrate acorn- and seedling-predators on a Mediterranean Quercus pyrenaica forest.- For. Ecol. Manage. 180: 125-134.
18. Gómez J. M. et al. 2008. Effectiveness of rodents as local seed dispersers of Holm oaks.- Oecologia 155: 529-537.
19. Holland J. N. and Bronstein J. L. 2008. Mutualism. - In: Jorgensen S. E. (ed.), Encyclopedia of ecology. Elsevier, pp. 2485-2491.
20. Hulme P. E. and Kollmann J. 2005. Seed predator guilds, spatial variation in post-dispersal seed predation and potential effects on plant demography: a temperate perspective. - In: Forget P. M. et al. (eds), Seed fate. Predation, dispersal and seedling establishment. CABI Publishing, pp. 9-30.
21. Jansen P. A. and Forget P. M. 2001. Scatterhoarding rodents and tree regeneration. - In: Bongers F. et al. (eds), Dynamics and plant-animal interactions in a neotropical rainforest. Kluver, pp. 275-288.
22. Jansen P. A. et al. 2004. Seed mass and mast seeding enhance dispersal by a neotropical scatter-hoarding rodent. Ecol. Monogr. 74: 569-589.
23. Jansen P. A. et al. 2006. Tropical rodents change rapidly germinating seeds into long-term food supplies. Oikos 113: 449-458.
24. Jensen T. S. 1985. Seed-seed predator interactions of European beech, Fagussilvatica and forest rodents, Clethrionomysglareolus and Apodemusflavicollis.- Oikos 44: 149-156.
25. Keyes C. R. et al. 2009. Recruitment of ponderosa pine seedlings in the Cascade Range. For. Ecol. Manage. 257: 495-501.
26. Klinger R. and Rejmánek M. 2010. A strong conditional mutualism limits and enhances seed dispersal and germination of a tropical palm. Oecologia 162: 951-963.
27. Kollmann J. and Schill H. P. 1996. Spatial patterns of dispersal, seed predation and germination during colonization of abandoned grassland by Quercus petraea and Corylus avellana. Vegetatio 125: 193-205.
28. Mangan S. A. et al. 2010. Negative plant-soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest. Nature 466: 752-755.
29. Maron J. L. and Simms E. L. 1997. Effect of seed predation on seed bank size and seedling recruitment of bush lupine (Lupinusarboreus). Oecologia 111: 76-83.
30. Maron J. L. and Crone E. E. 2006. Herbivory: effects on plant abundance, distribution and population growth. Proc. R. Soc. B 273: 2575-2584.
31. Morris W. F. et al. 2007. Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis. Ecology 88: 1021-1029.
32. Orrock J. L. et al. 2008. Apparent competition with an exotic plant reduces native plant establishment. Ecology 89: 1168-1174.
33. Schupp E. W. 1993. Quantity, quality, and the effectiveness of seed dispersal by animals. Vegetatio 107/108: 15-29.
34. Schupp E. W. 1995. Seed-seedling conflicts, habitat choice, and patterns of plant recruitment. Am. J. Bot. 82: 399-409.
35. Schupp E. W. et al. 2010. Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review. New Phytol. 188: 333-353.
36. Sork V. L. 1985. Germination response in a large-seeded neotropical tree species, Gustavasuperba (Lecythidaceae). Biotropica 17: 130-136.
37. Theimer T. C. 2001. Seed scatterhoarding by white-tailed rats: consequences for seedling recruitment by an Australian rain forest tree. J. Trop. Ecol. 17: 177-189.
38. Theimer T. C. 2005. Rodent scatterhoarders as conditional mutualists. - In: Forget P. M. et al. (eds), Seed fate. Predation, dispersal and seedling establishment. CABI Publishing, pp. 283-295.
39. Tomback D. F. et al. 2005. Life on the edge for limber pine: seed dispersal within a peripheral population. Écoscience 12: 519-529.
40. Turnbull L. A. et al. 2000. Are plant populations seed-limited? A review of seed sowing experiments. Oikos 88: 225-238.
41. Vander Wall S. B. 1992. The role of animals in dispersing a 'wind-dispersed' pine.- Ecology 73: 614-621.
42. Vander Wall S. B. 1993. A model of caching depth: implications for scatter hoarders and plant dispersal. Am. Nat. 141: 217-232.
43. Vander Wall S. B. 1994. Seed fate pathways of antelope bitterbrush: dispersal by seed-caching yellow pine chipmunks. Ecology 75: 1911-1926.
44. Vander Wall S. B. 2001. The evolutionary ecology of nut dispersal. Bot. Rev. 67: 74-117.
45. Vander Wall S. B. 2002. Masting in animal-dispersed pines facilitates seed dispersal. Ecology 83: 3508-3516.
46. Vander Wall S. B. and Joyner J. W. 1998. Recaching of Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) seeds by yellow chipmunks (Tamias amoenus): potential effects on plant reproductive success. Can. J. Zool. 76: 154-162.
47. Vander Wall S. B. et al. 2005. Seed removal, seed predation and secondary dispersal. Ecology 86: 801-806.
48. Xiao Z. et al. 2005. The effects of seed abundance on seed predation and dispersal by rodents in Castanopsisfargesii (Fagaceae). Plant Ecol. 177: 249-257.
49. Zwolak R. et al. 2010. Fire and mice: seed predation moderates fire's influence on conifer recruitment. Ecology 91: 1124-1131.