Rodents are ubiquitous seed predators in nature and their size-related seed choice plays an important role in the plant's community structure. However, to understand how size-related seed predation by rodents affects plant ...

For a plant with bird-dispersed seeds, the effectiveness of seed dispersal can change with fruit availability at scales ranging from individual plants to neighborhoods, and the scale at which frugivory patterns emerge may ...

Bird foraging behaviour is a major factor involved in mutualistic interactions of fleshy-fruited plants. Despite much research, we still lack quantified demonstrations of how fruit display traits affect fruit removal ...

Scatter-hoarding animals are crucial in seed dispersal of nut-bearing plants. We used the holm oak Quercus ilex—wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus mutualism as a model system to evaluate the relative importance of seed size ...

Frugivorous animals may use morphological traits of food items such as size, hardness, shape, color and smell as cues that allow them to assess cost-benefit relationship of foraging activity. Fruit size is an important ...

Seed predation is usually seen as a synonym of death to the seed. Nowadays, it’s known that some damaged seeds can still germinate, and grow as seedlings. In this study we used seeds from Eugenia pyriformis, E. involucrata ...

The use of anvils for foraging allows access to food that cannot be exploited otherwise by most birds or other animals. This may be especially important in habitats where food resources are scarce or fluctuate seasonally ...