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SEED REMOVAL, SEED PREDATION, AND SECONDARY DISPERSAL
Abstract
Many studies of postdispersal seed fate use seed removal as an index of seed predation. However, following primary seed dispersal, some seeds are transported intact by ants, dung beetles, scatter-hoarding animals, or abiotic processes to new microsites (secondary dispersal) where germination is possible. Despite a growing realization that secondary seed dispersal can play an important role in plant recruitment, many researchers continue to use seed removal as a proxy for seed predation and are focused too intently on only the initial step of seed fate. We describe, using examples from the recent literature, how the results of some seed removal studies may have been misinterpreted, present plausible, alternative explanations for the fate of seeds in those studies, and discuss the importance of detailed studies of seed fates. Following the fates of seeds can be difficult, but such studies contribute much more to our understanding of seed dynamics and plant fitness.
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- Authors
- Vander Wall, S. B., Kuhn, K. M., & Beck, M. J.
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-03
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 801-806
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
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- W2137435783
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- 397
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- 0
- FWCI
- 16.22
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- closed
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- doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 3836 d)
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