Claim · model-written summary
Viable seeds were also recovered after long retention from least sandpipers.
- Interactor
- least sandpipers (Erolia minutilla)
Calidris minutillae0other - Outcome
- seeds were recoverede0
- Qualifier
- long-time retentione0
Not reportedTaxon
Verbatim
e0“seeds were recovered in the same way, after long-time retention, from least sandpipers (Erolia minutilla)”
t0“Seeds”
Title
Long-Distance Dispersal of Seeds by Retention in Digestive Tract of Birds
Vernon W. Proctor Science 1968. doi:10.1126/science.160.3825.321
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