Claim · model-written summary
Dispersal quantity and quality were uncorrelated.
- Taxon
- Corema album
Corema albume1 - Outcome
- quality of dispersale0
- Direction
- no_changeinferrede0
- Qualifier
- Quantity and quality of dispersale0
- Comparator
- Quantitye0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentSettingValue
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Quantity and quality of dispersal were not correlated”
e1“the shrub Corema album (Empetraceae)”
Title
Effectiveness of a varied assemblage of seed dispersers of a fleshy‐fruited plant
María Calviño-Cancela; Julio Martín-Herrero Ecology 2009. doi:10.1890/08-1629.1
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Method / resource The model tracked animal-dispersed seeds and estimated disperser-specific seedling contributions.
- Observation Larus michahellis was the most effective disperser in two of three habitats.
- Mechanism T. merula effectiveness was limited mainly by deposition patterns.
- Mechanism O. cuniculus effectiveness was limited mainly by harmful effects on seedling emergence.
- Observation Gulls accounted for 90% of recruitment in sparse scrub.
- Association Dispersal quality better predicted effectiveness.
- Association Seedling emergence explained 99.8% of the spatial pattern variance.
- Association Seedling emergence explained 43-83% of within-microhabitat recruitment quantity.
- Intervention effect More dispersal improved recruitment for all dispersers when fruits were unlimited.
- Intervention effect With limited fruit, more low-quality dispersal reduced overall recruitment.