Claim · model-written summary
Transport away from parent trees enhanced postdispersal seed survival.
- Taxon
- Dracaena draco
Dracaena dracot0 - Treatment
- seed transport away from parent treese0
- Outcome
- post-dispersal seed survivale0
- Direction
- enhancee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Dracaena draco”
e0“seed transport away from parent trees and pulp removal enhance both post-dispersal seed survival and seedling emergence”
Title
Unraveling the Seed Dispersal System of an Insular “Ghost” Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco) in the Wild
Aarón González-Castro; David Pérez-Pérez; Javier Romero; et al. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2019. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00039
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Small fruits yielded seeds unable to germinate.
- Association Most seedling emergence came from large fruits.
- Observation Turdus merula appeared to be the only passerine able to swallow large fruits.
- Observation Small passerines tended to remove pulp without dispersing seeds.
- Observation Sylvia atricapilla occasionally carried fruits away and dispersed seeds without digestion.
- Intervention effect Pulp removal enhanced seedling emergence.
- Observation Pigeons regurgitated mostly viable seeds.
- Observation The authors identified at least two extant bird dispersers.